An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of two new exoplanets, a few times more massive than Earth, ...

A light curve from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph) shows the change in brightness from the star system over time as the planet transited the star.

"Given everything we know about this planet, a Hycean world with an ocean that is teeming with life is the scenario that best ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS ... Observatory Tautenburg in Germany, identified a transit signal in the light curve of TOI-3493 with TESS. The planetary nature of ...

The signal that tipped the astronomers off was a peculiar transit ... The typical signal of an orbiting exoplanet looks like a brief dip in a light curve, which repeats regularly, indicating ...

When the first exoplanet ... a planet would transit, or pass directly in front of its star, causing the starlight to temporarily dim. When Charbonneau plotted the light curves for the first ...

By Dave Prosper Astronomers have been trying to discover evidence that worlds exist around stars other than our Sun since the ...

The discovery was made on a massive exoplanet ... studying the light from its parent star as the planet passes in front of it as seen from the Earth. During K2-18b's stellar transit, Webb was ...