Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half ...
Located less than 20 light years away, HD 20794d could potentially be one of the most Earth-like planets found so far, ...
Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...
Gravitational microlensing occurs when one star passes directly in front of a background star ... three of the smallest rocky exoplanets yet detected—each no larger than Mars—closely orbit ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has revolutionized astronomy in just three years. A new project celebrates its impact on the ...
Though no exoplanet has been found to precisely twin ... they tested each telescope's instruments' abilities to differentiate universal background noise from the planetary noise they aimed to ...