The current exoplanet census contains 5,832 confirmed candidates, with more than 7,500 still awaiting confirmation. Of those that have been…
Located in the constellation Ursa Major, roughly 300 light-years from Earth, is the Sun-like star HD 118203 (Liesma). In 2006,…
To date, astronomers have confirmed the existence of 5638 extrasolar planets in 4,199 star systems. In the process, scientists have…
The hunt for extrasolar planets has revealed some truly interesting candidates, not the least of which are planets known as…
The James Webb Space Telescope has taken a stunning new image of the ice giant world Uranus. But what stands…
A couple times a year, the Hubble Space Telescope turns its powerful gaze on the giant planets in the outer…
Exoplanet discovery space hosts all kinds of interesting "super" worlds. There are super-Earths, super-Neptunes, and, of course, Super-Jupiters. Recently, the…
The number of planets discovered beyond our Solar System has grown exponentially in the past twenty years, with 4,919 confirmed…
The search for exoplanets has revealed types of planets that are nothing like the worlds in our own Solar System.…
If you want an iconic picture of the planet Saturn, it doesn’t get any better than this. The latest picture…