exoplanets

Astronomers find Earth-like exoplanets common across the cosmos

Using the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet), an international team of researchers has discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common…

9 months ago

Turning down starlight to spot new exoplanets

Researchers have developed a new coronagraph -- an optical device that blocks out light from a bright source -- that…

10 months ago

TOI-1453: Sub-Neptune in system of two exoplanets

Astronomers have discovered two exoplanets around TOI-1453, a star about 250 light years away. These two exoplanets, a super-Earth and…

11 months ago

‘Out of science fiction’: First 3D observations of an exoplanet’s atmosphere reveal a unique climate

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first…

12 months ago

Webb Telescope offers first glimpse of an exoplanet’s interior

A surprisingly low amount of methane and a super-sized core hide within the cotton candy-like planet WASP-107 b. The revelations,…

2 years ago

Neptune-like exoplanets can be cloudy or clear

The study of "exoplanets," the sci-fi-sounding name for all planets in the cosmos beyond our own solar system, is a…

2 years ago