In the search for extraterrestrial life, the presence of water is a key signature of possible habitability. Identifying why ...

An exoplanet is what we call planets that exist outside of our own solar system. The first one was discovered in 1992, but as we get more powerful and precise telescopes and instruments, scientists ...

Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system that most often orbit a star. Astronomers have managed to bring an exoplanet into unprecedented focus by using a technique the researchers call 3D ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers have detected a new exoplanet orbiting a bright K-type star known as TOI-283. The newfound alien world, ...

It's the first use of a new technique called 3D eclipse mapping. Astronomers have produced the first-ever three-dimensional map of a planet outside our solar system — WASP-18b — marking a major leap ...

As more and more exoplanets are discovered throughout the galaxy, scientists find some that defy explanation—at least for awhile. A new study, published in Nature, describes a process that might ...

Astronomers have produced the first-ever three-dimensional map of a planet outside our solar system — WASP-18b — marking a major leap forward in exoplanet research. Using the James Webb Space ...

Surveys of the Galaxy have found that the most common type of planet is typically closer to its host star than the innermost planet of the Solar System, Mercury, is to the Sun. The orbits of these ...

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