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Before NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission launched in 2018, astronomers tried to understand what it would find in advance. One study calculated that TESS would find between 4430 and 4660 new exoplanets during its primary two-year-long mission. The primary mission (PM) is over, and TESS is in its extended mission (EM) now. The …
We found our first exoplanets orbiting a pulsar in 1992. Since then, we’ve discovered many thousands more. Those were the first steps in identifying other worlds that could harbour life. Now planetary scientists want to take the next step: studying exoplanet atmospheres. The ESA’s ARIEL mission will be a powerful tool.
LOFAR sees ‘exoplanet aurorae’ near distant red dwarf suns.
The Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems (JATIS) has released a special edition of papers dedicated to educating the public about Starshade and what it can do to narrow the search for Earth-like exoplanets.
Earth’s ionosphere blocks us from seeing radio aurora on distant worlds, but a radio telescope on the Moon would let us see them.
According to new research, most extrasolar planets do not get enough radiation to support photosynthesis, which places limits on how many might be habitable.
If dark matter exists, it could make Jupiter-like exoplanets warmer than we expect.
Exoplanetology has been on a tear recently. This is largely due to an abundance of data collected by a new generation of satellites, one of which is the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Now the project has reached a new milestone with another release of data – 2,200 planet candidates collected, far surpassing the 1,600 …
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Mighty planets can be whittled down, leaving behind only their rocky cores, becoming nothing bigger than superearths. While astronomers had long suspected that this could happen, a new study reveals that it can occur in as little as a billion years.
Thanks to an international team astronomers led from MIT, a nearby Sun-like star has been spotted with a system of five exoplanets, making it the perfect target for observations with the James Webb Space Telescope.