This dense sampling of light curves is essential to catching the faint signs of faraway planets. And while microlensing events are rare—only 237 of over 5,000 known exoplanets have been found ...

Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...

Using the now-retired Kepler space telescope, astronomers have discovered that larger planets grow up in more turbulent homes than smaller worlds.

This artist’s illustration shows Dimidium (51 Pegasi b), the first exoplanet discovered that orbited a star similar to the Sun. ... a freely available light-curve analysis tool.

Astronomy’s latest trophy planet, TOI-4465 b, is a lumbering gas giant six times heavier than Jupiter. Its existence came to ...

Astronomers have so far discovered over 5,000 exoplanets. And in 2022, ... "The size of the effect of tidal deformation on an exoplanet transit light curve is very small, ...

While it was observing the phase curve of WASP-76B, CHEOPS saw a pre-eclipse excess of light on its night side. This had also been seen in TESS phase-curve and secondary-eclipse observations that ...

The only evidence is in light curves. The two exoplanets at issue, Kepler-1625 b and Kepler-1708b are 8,200 and 5,500 light-years away, respectively.

Exoplanets are worlds that orbit stars other than the sun. Since their discovery in the 1990s, these alien planets have been revealing that the universe is a diverse place.

Stars with low magnetic field strength exhibit a more pronounced limb darkening than those with a strong magnetic field. This affects the shape of the light curve.