Extrasolar Planets
This Exoplanet Orbits Around its Star’s Poles
In 1992, humanity's effort to understand the Universe took a significant step forward. That's when astronomers discovered the first exoplanets.…
NASA’s Exoplanet Watch Wants Your Help Studying Planets Around Other Stars
NASA has launched Exoplanet Watch, a citizen science project that allows the public to help discover and study extrasolar planets!
Astronomers Scanned 12 Planets for Alien Signals While They Were in Front of Their Stars
New research by the SETI Institute and Breakthrough Listen scanned twelve planets for signs of radio signals when they passed…
Hubble and Spitzer Team up to Find a Pair of Waterworld Exoplanets
Using data from Hubble and Spitzer, an international team has discovered two new waterworlds in one system.
The Case of the “Missing Exoplanets”
A team of astronomers with the CLEVER Planets project have developed a model that may explain the mystery of the…
What Happens to Hot Jupiters when their Star Becomes a Red Giant?
New research from the COMPAS consortium has simulated what happens to Hot Jupiters when their stars become Red Giants.
Here are Four Ways JWST Could Detect Alien Life
There are many ways that the James Webb Space Telescope could search for life. Here are four promising ones.
TESS has Resumed Normal Operations
NASA has announced that TESS is back online and resumed normal operations!
TESS Finds a Super-Earth and two Mini-Neptunes in a Single System
A recent study based on TESS data has revealed a three-planet system (two mini-Neptunes and a Super-Earth) just over 200…
There Could be as Many Water Worlds as Earths in the Milky Way
A new study has examined all the rocky planets around red dwarf stars and determined that "water worlds" are as…