Astronomers had to beat the clock to see the exoplanet before it disappeared for a decade. The James Webb Space Telescope has directly imaged its lowest mass extrasolar planet outside the solar ...

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Studying the chemical cloud has taken a long time because it is often obscured by WASP-49 b (left) and the exoplanet's home star WASP-49 (right). (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) In addition to ...

Explore some of these distant worlds and strange worlds with us, how they compare to our own solar system planets, and the ways in which we search for them. We can even use Minecraft to simulate ...

Astronomers have discovered a new feature in the distribution of planets beyond the solar system, and this finding could help ...

Located around 100 light-years away from Earth, the exoplanet is shrouded in a thick envelope of steam. This world, designated GJ 9827 d, is around twice the size of Earth, three times more ...

One thing we've learned in recent decades is that exoplanets are surprisingly common. So far, we've confirmed nearly 6,000 planets, and we have evidence for thousands more. Most of these planets ...

The newly discovered exoplanet has around half the mass of Venus, which classifies it as a "sub-Earth." The exoplanet, ...

In May 2024, the first exoplanet orbiting TIC 393818343 was detected. The planet, which received designation TIC 393818343 b, orbits the host every 16.25 days on an eccentric orbit .

But beyond our own system, there are even more types of exoplanet out there, including water worlds covered in ocean and where life could potentially thrive. Now, researchers using the James Webb ...

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 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected clouds made of silicates, similar to sand here on Earth, as well as water, methane and carbon monoxide on exoplanet VHS 1256 b.