In principle, discovering new exoplanets is pretty easy. Simply measure the brightness of a star over time, and when a planet passes in front of the star, the brightness will dim slightly. The more ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers have detected a new exoplanet ...

"Our approach gives astronomers an idea of how many spots a star might have, where they are located, and how bright or dark they are." NASA scientists have devised a new way to use planets that cross, ...

A recent discovery of a “newborn” exoplanet could help scientists explain how our own home world came to be. In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, astronomers describe the youngest ...

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The first exoplanet discovery in 1995 around a Sun-like star challenged the then-prevailing model of planetary system formation based solely on our solar system, revealing the existence of massive ...

An artistic rendering of an exoplanet in a tight orbit, followed by a dusty, comet-like tail of debris. Jose-Luis Olivares / MIT Astronomers have spotted a distant planet shedding matter with each ...

"If trying to explain how three super puffs formed in one system wasn’t challenging enough, now we have to explain a fourth planet." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...