K2-360 is a newly found planetary system with a super-dense planet, likely the core of a former larger world, shaped by ...

A new study compares young and old exoplanets to uncover how worlds shrink, migrate and evolve over time — offering insights ...

The water layers of exoplanet Kepler-138d (right) make up a depth of about 2000 km of the planet. The Earth (left) has an average ocean depth of less than 4km. (Benoit Gougeon/Université de Montréal) ...

In a paper slated for publication April 14 in Science, Currie reports the first exoplanet jointly discovered through direct imaging and precision astrometry, a new indirect method that identifies a ...

And Kepler-16 b, located roughly 250 light-years away, is the real deal. Discovered in 2011, this exoplanet defies the traditional solitary planetary orbit by circling two stars — much like the ...

Atlas Pro Why THIS Planet Would Have RED Plants Posted: March 24, 2025 | Last updated: March 24, 2025 Recently we learned about the exoplanet Kepler-186f, a potentially earthlike, potentially ...

It started as another exoplanet in a group labeled “ordinary.” No one expected that a world, once thought to be a mini-Neptune, would reveal traits of a super-Venus and change how we see certain ...

An artist’s rendering of Barnard’s Star, as seen from one of the newly discovered exoplanets orbiting it International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / P. Marenfeld under CC BY 4.0 ...

Using this technique, and by gathering the light curves from these stars, Kepler uncovered thousands of exoplanets. The UCLA team turned to 1,600 of these light curves to extract information about ...

The images suggest key giant exoplanets likely formed like Jupiter and Saturn. In a groundbreaking discovery, the James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first direct images of carbon dioxide ...

An artist’s illustration of the planets around Barnard’s Star – credit: International Gemini Observatory/NSF’s NOIRLab/International Gemini Observatory Astronomers have identified 4 ...