NASA discovers trio of exoplanets with one possibly habitable world
Sometimes there is more to a planetary system than initially meets the eye.
Ground-based observations following up on the discovery of a small planet by...
Scientists discover a prototype for ultra-hot Jupiters
This exoplanet is hot enough for heavy elements to evaporate and escape its atmosphere.
The scorching hot exoplanet WASP-121b may not be shredding any heavy...
Scientists discover the most iron-poor star in the Galaxy
Astronomers find the most iron-poor star in the Galaxy, hinting at the nature of the first stars in the Universe.
A newly discovered ancient star...
NASA discover a hot, Earth-sized planet located in habitable zone
A piping hot planet discovered by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has pointed the way to additional worlds orbiting the same star, one...
NASA’s TESS satellite discovers first nearby super-Earth planet
An international team of astronomers led by Cornell’s Lisa Kaltenegger has characterized the first potentially habitable world outside of our own solar system.
Located about...
Scientists discover a new tiny exoplanet in a strange configuration
Earthlings have long daydreamed about faraway planets, but only recently have scientists been able to identify thousands of new exoplanets—and to learn more and...
Frozen Earthlike planets could still support life, says study
Icy planets once thought too cold to support life might have livable land areas above freezing, challenging the typical assumption of what kinds of...
NASA discovers new type of planet missing from our own solar system
NASA's newest planet-hunting satellite has discovered a type of planet missing from our own solar system.
Launched in 2018, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or...
Scientists see evidence of Einstein’s theories in star orbiting massive black hole
More than 100 years ago, Albert Einstein predicted that light is deflected by extremely massive objects, but there is no way to test such...
Milky Way’s central black hole puts Einstein’s theories to the test
University of California astronomers have tested Albert Einstein’s theories of relativity in the crucible of the monstrous black hole at the center of our...