Extrasolar Planets
Astronomers Find a Six-Planet System Which Orbit in Lockstep With Each Other
Astronomers have found a star system with six exoplanets that orbit with an almost perfect 3:2 resonance.
Astronomers Might Have Imaged a Second Planet Around Nearby Proxima Centauri – and it Might Have a Huge Set of Rings
A new study by a team using data from the Very Large Telescope's SPHERE instrument, may have caught a direct…
An Earth-Sized World Orbiting in its Star’s Habitable Zone Was Found in Older Kepler Data
Searching through archival Kepler data has revealed another exoplanet around Kepler-1649, the most Earth-like exoplanet discovered to date
Five Snapshots of how the Earth Looked at Key Points in its History Could Help us Find Habitable Exoplanets
A study by Cornell's Carl Sagan Institute provides models of how Earth looked like over time, which could help us…
How Will Clouds Obscure the View of Exoplanet Surfaces?
A new study shows how the presence of a cloud layer could make it harder for the James Webb Space…
Gas and Dust Stop Planets From Eating Their Moons
A team of Japanese researchers have created a new model for moon formation that explains how planets like Saturn end…
Detecting Exoplanets Through Their Exoauroras
A team of scientists from the Netherlands have proposed an exciting new approach for finding exoplanets: look for signs of…
Here’s What the Climate Might Look Like on Proxima Centauri B
NASA scientists have run simulations that show what the climate on Proxima b might be like, with encouraging results!
Giant Planets Could Form Around Tiny Stars in Just a Few Thousand Years
A new study has shown how gas giants (like Proxima c) can exist around Red Dwarf suns, the most common…
In About 3 Million Years, WASP-12b Will Spiral into its Star and be Consumed
A new study led by Princeton researchers has confirmed that in the long run, hot Jupiters are destined to be…