The presence of exoplanets in the star system was first ... The planet's star, 82 G. Eridani, is a yellow dwarf like our Sun with about 80 percent of its mass. It's older than our Sun, however ...

The exoplanet is about nine times the size of ... the blue is ionized iron, the yellow and green areas are dust, and the white parts indicate synchrotron emission from electrons interacting ...

Because Tylos is so close to its host star, a yellow-white F-type star called Dilmun ... an extreme temperature gradient between the day side and the night side of its exoplanet, which stirs up ...

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A paper published in 2023 spurred discussion about whether life exists on an exoplanet named K2-18b. Two years later, the ...

"I do not believe we yet have convincing evidence of the presence of DMS in K2-18b's atmosphere." In 2023, debate erupted in the astronomy community about whether life could exist on an exoplanet ...

An illustration of one of Barnard’s Star's four exoplanets. © Illustration by International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Proctor/J. Pollard Astronomers ...

"Even the strongest hurricanes in the solar system seem calm in comparison." WASP-121 b is the definition of an "extreme" exoplanet — it's so hot that it rains droplets of liquid iron.

These days, researchers commonly discover exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. But sometimes there’s a special discovery, like an exoplanet right in our backyard — and that’s the ...

Tylos (or WASP-121b) is a gaseous, giant exoplanet located some 900 light-years away in the constellation Puppis. Using the ESPRESSO instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), scientists ...