Tag: Exoplanet

Citizen scientists have helped comb through data from a NASA telescope to identify a gas giant planet located 379 light-years away.

Astronomers have discovered a planet some previously thought to be impossible, orbiting an enormous and extremely hot star system.

Astronomers have discovered a terrifying planet: Smaller than Earth and so close to its star that it completes an orbit in just eight hours.

Evidence has been uncovered for the potential identification of a planet in another galaxy for the first time.

Recently, astronomers had the rare treat of observing an exoplanet directly — and it’s one of the youngest planets ever found.

Astronomers have identified a cosmic oddity: What may be the first planet ever discovered that orbits three stars.

Of the roughly 4,200 exoplanets discovered thus far, most are larger than Earth. But the recently identified planet L 98-59b is just half the mass of Venus.

Researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a very odd planet that seems to be regrowing its atmosphere after having lost it in the past.

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have found an interesting exoplanet equivalent to the hypothesized ninth planet in our solar system.

It’s been a hellish week here on Earth, but it could be worse — we could be on K2-141b, a lava planet with some of the most extreme weather ever…