Tag: exoplanets

Astronomers have identified three brown dwarfs which are spinning ten times as fast as a typical planet, so fast that they are on the verge of being torn apart.

The upcoming NASA Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will use a method called microlensing to search for tens of thousands of exoplanets.

NASA is considering launched a small satellite called Pandora that could help investigate the atmospheres of planets beyond our solar system.

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is celebrating more than 2,200 exoplanet candidates discovered in its first two years of operations.

Global tectonic activity has never been observed on a planet outside our solar system, but now a new study suggests that exoplanet LHS 3844b has interior flows.

No day or night, heat intense enough to melt lead, and glowing rivers of lava: This hellish landscape is a typical day on exoplanet Gliese 486b.

Astronomers have spotted a an exciting star called TOI 451, similar to our sun but much younger, which has three hot planets in orbit around it.

Researchers have discovered a planet with three suns and an unusual kink in its orbit.

This week marks the one-year anniversary of the launch of CHEOPS, ESA’s exoplanet investigation telescope. Here’s what it discovered in its first year.

Europe’s CHEOPS satellite has uncovered details about its first exoplanet: An extreme world so hot that even metals like iron would evaporate and turn into gas.