Do you wonder how astronomers find all those exoplanets orbiting stars in distant solar systems? Mostly they use the transit…
Astronomers working with TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) data have found a planet where it shouldn't be: in the space…
TESS recently discovered a three-planet system orbiting a red dwarf star 35 light years away, increasing the number of rocky…
A highly effective (but very difficult) method of exoplanet detection involves capturing direct images of bodies orbiting distant stars from…
Before commencing its mission to find exoplanets, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite took some impressive images of a comet in…
When the James Webb Space Telescope is deployed, it will study and characterize the atmospheres of gas giants, with the…
The Kepler mission, which is responsible for the majority of exoplanet discoveries, is running out of fuel and will be…
Thanks to a new study performed by a pair of astrophysicists from the University of Oklahoma, the first extra-galactic planets…
The Exoplanets in Transits and their Atmospheres (ExTrA), just went online and is now searching for exoplanets around red dwarf…
According to a new study by a team from Columbia University, the upcoming super telescopes might be able to detect…