NASA’s Roman Space Telescope prepares to unleash a flood of new cosmic discoveries
Roman is designed to return about 1.4 terabytes of data daily, with observations becoming publicly available after processing.A…
Two families of multi-planet systems with distinct architectures and stellar hosts
The sample of multi-planet systems and their host stars We collected planetary data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive24…
Discovery of a second-generation planet candidate accreting onto a white dwarf
Spectroscopic observations HS 0209+0832 was observed using HST/STIS in the FUV on 10 January 19994. Two exposures of…
Astronomers Confirm Discovery of the Youngest Known Exoplanet Ever
How are planets born, and how do they grow? This is an essential question in astronomy, one that…
AI finds 44 star systems that could hide Earth-like planets
A machine-learning model identified 44 known planetary systems that could contain undiscovered Earth-like planets.Tests reached up to 99%…
Scientists Detect Radio Signals From an Exoplanet for the First Time in History
Approximately 63 light-years from Earth lies a planetary system so young that it’s less than 1 percent as…
Volatile depletion in rocky planets as a chemical fingerprint of hybrid accretion
Albarède, F. Volatile accretion history of the terrestrial planets and dynamic implications. Nature 461, 1227–1233 (2009). Article ADS …
Astronomers Finally Pick Up Radio Signals From a Planet Beyond Our Solar System
For the first time, astronomers have detected radio signals from a planet beyond our solar system, according to…
Newfound ‘Baby’ Planet Smashes Record for Youngest Known World
Astronomers have confirmed a world that’s less than a million years old as the youngest known planet, using…
Rogue Planets Challenge Our Assumptions About Life in the Universe
In the early 2000s, scientists were scanning the skies for faint objects when they first began to come…
Giant mega-Earth is 23 times more massive than Earth
View larger. | Artist’s concept of a giant mega-Earth. The newly discovered mega-Earth GJ 523b is 23.5 times…
Could there be life in helium atmospheres on exoplanets?
View larger. | Artist’s concept of an exoplanet with a helium-dominated atmosphere. A new study suggests that there…