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After three years of helping astronomers investigate known planets beyond the solar system, the James Webb Space Telescope ...

A new gas giant world discovered by citizen scientists using data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS is cool, ...

WASP-121b, also known as Tylos, is a giant, ultra-hot, gaseous planet located 858 light years from Earth. It's hot because it ...

An extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, is a planet beyond the Solar System. As of 11 November 2006, 209 extrasolar planets have been discovered.

Other extrasolar planets have been detected by professional and amateur astronomers using something called the transit method. When a planet crosses the face of its star as seen from Earth, the star's ...

An extrasolar planet named TOI-1452 b was recently discovered by an international team of researchers led by Charles Cadieux, a graduate student at the Université de Montréal and member of the ...

An exoplanet—also called an extrasolar planet—is a planet outside a solar system that orbits another star. With direct imaging, astronomers can see an exoplanet’s light in a telescope and study its ...

I am an astrophysicist and astrobiologist with over 20 years of experience studying extrasolar planets – which are planets beyond our solar system.. My colleagues and I have developed a new ...

Astronomers have found the heavyweight champion of extrasolar planets in the form of an odd alien world slightly bigger than Jupiter, but more than eight times as massive. IE 11 is not supported.

Other extrasolar planets have been detected by professional and amateur astronomers using something called the transit method. When a planet crosses the face of its star as seen from Earth, the ...