"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet." ...

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

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For many years, astronomers have been looking for extraterrestrial life. In doing so, astronomers have narrowed their search ...

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European astronomers report the discovery of a second alien world in the TOI-1422 planetary system located some 500 light years away. The newfound exoplanet, which received designation TOI-1422 c, is ...

(Nanowerk News) Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have observed a rare type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar system, whose atmospheric composition challenges our ...

What can theoretical models teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets? This is what a recent funding grant from the National Science Foundation hopes to address as a Dr. Diego ...

Astronomers have created the first three-dimensional (3D) map of a planet orbiting another star, revealing an atmosphere with distinct temperature zones – one so scorching that it breaks down water ...

Planet hunters have grown used to strange worlds, but a handful of discoveries now point to something even more radical: giant planets that loop around their stars on orbits so skewed they almost defy ...