A monster exoplanet as big as 10 times the size of Jupiter has emerged from the stellar gas and dust surrounding a young star ...

Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme — triggering stellar flares from their own ...

A new gas giant world discovered by citizen scientists using data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS is cool, ...

An extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, is a planet beyond the Solar System. As of 11 November 2006, 209 extrasolar planets have been discovered.

An extrasolar planet, also called an exoplanet, is a planet that orbits a star (i.e. is part of a solar system) other than our own. Our Solar System is only one among billions and many of them ...

Learn more about WASP-121b, the exoplanet so hot it could vaporize iron.

Other extrasolar planets have been detected by professional and amateur astronomers using something called the transit method. When a planet crosses the face of its star as seen from Earth, the star's ...

After three years of helping astronomers investigate known planets beyond the solar system, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered its first new planet.

Plant Life On Extrasolar Earthlike Planets Could Be Black Date: June 20, 2007 Source: Washington University in St. Louis Summary: Scientists seeking clues to life on extrasolar planets are ...

An extrasolar planet named TOI-1452 b was recently discovered by an international team of researchers led by Charles Cadieux, a graduate student at the Université de Montréal and member of the ...

APRIL 13, 2023 — An international research team led by UTSA associate professor of astrophysics Thayne Currie has made a breakthrough in accelerating the search for new planets. In a paper slated for ...

Other extrasolar planets have been detected by professional and amateur astronomers using something called the transit method. When a planet crosses the face of its star as seen from Earth, the ...