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Observations of Exoplanet WASP-69b has uncovered a 350,000-mile-long comet-like tail. The tail is a result of its escaping ...
NASA’s Chandra and Hubble telescopes have spotted a young Jupiter-like exoplanet, TOI 1227 b, rapidly losing its atmosphere due to intense X-ray radiation.
The hunt for potentially habitable rocky planets in our galaxy has been the holy grail of exoplanet studies for decades.
Stars and planets are naturally associated with one another. While some planets have gone rogue and are drifting through ...
In the quest for life beyond our planet, Earth has long been considered the gold standard for habitability. However, recent research is suggesting that there may be exoplanets out there that could ...
These incredible images reveal the exact moment when planets began to form around a star 1,300 light-years from Earth.
Astronomers have detected a massive, Ultra-Hot Jupiter that’s getting dangerously close to its star. It’s more massive than Jupiter and orbits its star more quickly than Mercury orbits the Sun. There ...
Astronomers have uncovered major size errors in TESS planet data, suggesting we’ve found fewer Earth-like exoplanets than we believed.
WASP-121b, an already unusual planet, might have a remote origin that explains some of its peculiar properties—from iron rain ...
I learned that potential signs of life were discovered on an exoplanet called K2-18b, which is 120 light-years away from Earth.
A young planet named HIP 67522 causes violent eruptions on its star, dramatically accelerating the loss of its own atmosphere ...
WASP-121b is unlike anything in our Solar System. This giant planet orbits its star so closely that it completes a full orbit ...