Tag: Exoplanets

WASP-121b, also known as Tylos, is a giant, ultra-hot, gaseous planet located 858 light years from Earth. It’s hot because ...

Back to Article List For the first time, JWST has discovered an exoplanet through direct imaging, revealing TWA 7 b, ...

A newly discovered planetary system, informally known as 2M1510, is among the strangest ever found. An apparent planet traces out ...

Though they don’t orbit around our Sun, sub-Neptunes are the most common type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar ...

The universe is filled with countless galaxies, stars and planets. Astronomers may find life one day, but they will need ...

After weeks of preparation, the space observatory has begun its science mission, taking about 3,600 unique images per day to ...

A hycean world — one with a global water ocean and a hydrogen-rich atmosphere — orbits a red dwarf star ...

Back to Article List Combining with one other previously confirmed planet, one of our closest stellar neighbors now has a ...

When searching for signs of life on planets outside our Solar System, sometimes nothing is almost as good as something. ...

Four rocky planets much smaller than Earth orbit Barnard’s Star, the next closest to ours after the three-star Alpha Centauri ...