Analyzing data from K2, the follow-up mission to NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, scientists from MIT and elsewhere have found a trove of conceivable exoplanets in the...
By using the OSIRIS instrument of the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), scientists at the University of Cambridge and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) have...
An international team of astronomers, led by Dr. Nikolay Nikolov from the University of Exeter have detected an exoplanet atmosphere that is free of clouds....
Researchers have identified more than 2,000 of these "super-Earths," exoplanets that are bigger than Earth, however, smaller than Neptune. By examining how iron and...
Debris disks around stars are good indicators of exoplanets.In the latest project by NASA, volunteers search telescopic images for evidence of debris disks in...
Researchers searching for life on removed planets are making arrangements to look non-Earth-like planets in view of disclosures inside our close planetary system that...
An international team of scientists including the University of Exeter has used NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to analyze the atmosphere of the hot exoplanet...
Five new planets have been found outside our nearby planetary group, all circling a sun-like star situated inside the heavenly body Aquarius, about 620...
MIT scientists along with amateur astronomers have captured the dusty tails of six exocomets orbiting around a faint star 800 light years from Earth. These comets...
Seven Earth-sized exoplanets circle, the ultra cool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 is just 40 light-years from our own blue planet. According to MIT scientists, these...