Many protoplanetary disks in which new planets are formed are much smaller than thought. Using the Atacama Large ...

An observational tango has thus emerged between the two methods. The transit method generates a large number of “candidates”, ...

An international team, including University of Geneva researchers, discovered a super-Earth named TOI-512 b orbiting a star ...

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

With METIS and MICADO, two instruments for what will be the largest optical telescope in the world, the Extremely Large ...

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

Researchers suggest that certain gases detected in the atmospheres of exoplanets could be key indicators in the search for ...

The Extremely Large Telescope will revolutionize our view of the cosmos when it sees first light in Chile in 2028. In fact, ...

Long before astronomers discovered the first exoplanet in 1992, the idea of worlds orbiting distant stars captivated the ...

Young, close-orbiting exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes may form farther from their stars and migrate inward or lose their ...

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

For the first time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured direct images of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere ...