The discovery of the exoplanet, a super-Earth called Kepler-735c, is all down to something called transit timing variations, ...

Kepler-725c is roughly 2,472 light years from Earth, circling a G9V star in about 207.5 days. Its path brings it into a ...

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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, NASA’s upcoming flagship observatory, has passed a crucial vibration test that ...

Giant planets are not rare per se — after all, we have four in our own solar system. Such large worlds are, however, rarely ...

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Early sci-fi exoplanets were often simple Earth-like worlds, but as science advanced, so did their realism. From the desert planet Arrakis in Dune to the bizarre gas giant moons in Avatar, fictional ...

The challenge in the search for habitable worlds is clear. We need to be able to identify habitable worlds and distinguish ...

Researchers were surprised to find giant gas planets orbiting quite near to their stars. Yet novelists had already imagined ...

TOI-6894 is one such star. Announced Wednesday in a paper for Nature Astronomy, the red dwarf is just 20% the mass of our Sun ...

Researchers developed a new coronagraph that could make it possible to see exoplanets that are normally obscured by light from their parent stars. The images show theoretical, experimental and ...

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