In recent years, the number of known extrasolar planets (aka. exoplanets) has grown exponentially. To date, 5,799 exoplanets have been…
In 2008, astronomers with the SuperWASP survey spotted WASP-12b as it transited in front of its star. At the time,…
Twenty-two light-years away, a rocky world orbits a red dwarf. It's called LTT 1445Ac, and NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite…
A new study considers how future astrobiology studies could search for life "as we don't know it" on exoplanets.
A new study estimates how many exoplanets the ESA's PLATO mission will discover during its four-year run, with encouraging results!
Astronomers have discovered thousands of planets using the transit technique, watching how distant stars dim as a planet passes in…
Prediction is one of the hallmarks of scientific endeavors. Scientists pride themselves on being able to predict physical realities based…
In a recent study published in Science Advances, a team of researchers commissioned the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET), which is designed…
NASA has launched Exoplanet Watch, a citizen science project that allows the public to help discover and study extrasolar planets!
New research by the SETI Institute and Breakthrough Listen scanned twelve planets for signs of radio signals when they passed…