The milestone highlights the accelerating rate of discoveries, just over three decades since the first exoplanets were found. The official number of exoplanets — planets outside our solar system — ...
A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...
A University of Arizona-led team discovered a growing planet, WISPIT 2b, forming inside a disk gap around a young star. The finding confirms theories that protoplanets carve out gaps in disks of gas ...
“If you build a map at a wavelength that water absorbs, you’ll see the water deck in the atmosphere, whereas a wavelength that water does not absorb will probe deeper. If you put those together, you ...
As telescopes have become more powerful, it’s turned out our solar system is not the only game in town: There are millions of ...
There are no confirmed exomoons, moons orbiting distant exoplanets in other solar systems. There are a few candidates, but ...