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…
Photos of distant exoplanets taken with the Roman Space Telescope and Max-Planck technology
The Roman Space Telescope is designed to directly image exoplanets using complex opto-mechanical systems developed by the Max…
‘Exciting’ Earth-Like Planet Found Close To The Solar System
Topline Astronomers have discovered a new Earth-like exoplanet just 25 light-years from the solar system, offering another promising…
NASA’s Roman Telescope to Carry 1.35 Million Names to Deep Space
On July 27, technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida installed a memory card containing 1,350,144 names…
Astronomers may have detected an exomoon
Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope in Chile have found evidence of a moon-sized companion far beyond our…
Planetary-mass exosatellite detected around the substellar companion of a star
Schneider, J., Dedieu, C., Le Sidaner, P., Savalle, R. & Zolotukhin, I. The extrasolar planets encyclopaedia: a database…
Life-friendly world? In first, atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone
A team of scientists says they have, for the first time, discovered an atmosphere on an Earth-like planet…
NASA’s Webb Discovers Hidden Planet in Famous Star System
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a giant planet outside our solar system, called an…
NASA’s Roman Launch Preparations Proceed
With less than two months until the launch of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, engineers at NASA’s…
NASA’s Webb Studies How Planet Survived Death of its Star
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is giving us new insight into the far-future of solar systems like our…
This Is the Most Detailed Image Yet of the Milky Way’s Center
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid space telescope has captured the largest and most detailed visible-light image ever…
NASA’s TESS Mission Reveals the “Puffiest” Planets Ever Found
Data from NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission has revealed two new “super-puff” planets, giant worlds so…