A distant flicker of light from a star can reveal more than you might expect. In fact, a brief, subtle brightening in the sky has helped scientists uncover something astonishing: planets much like ...

and this image depicts the red dwarf star Gliese 436 causing the gas to evaporate with intense radiation. This image shows how Hubble helped measure the mass of exoplanet Gliese 876b, and this image ...

The small exoplanet recently detected by Marcy and Butler's team supports that view. They found it while monitoring the two resonant planets in the Gliese 876 system, which is 15 light-years away.

These continued pursuits have uncovered a new object called Gliese 12 b, an exoplanet orbiting a star that is less active than TRAPPIST-1. Researchers think this calmer nature might preserve an ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Imaging exoplanets with the solar gravitational lens (SGL) faces major technical challenges, including solar corona noise, the sun’s quadrupole moment, and ...

Researchers have developed a new coronagraph that could make it possible to see distant exoplanets obscured by light from their parent stars. Researchers have developed a new coronagraph -- an ...

Researchers developed a new coronagraph that could make it possible to see exoplanets that are normally obscured by light from their parent stars. The images show theoretical, experimental and ...

When Star Wars debuted in 1977, astronomers had yet to confirm an exoplanet with the same orbital path as Skywalker’s home world. It would take another 16 years before experts located an actual ...

In a first, a pair of unusual stars has been revealed to have an equally unusual companion – an exoplanet that orbits them perpendicularly. Astronomers may think they know what is normal for ...

Upon further investigation, it seems that Gliese 581d may be the only one of the two actually in the habitable zone, and its ...

Planet TOI-421b lacks the haze of other exoplanets, which means we're able to get a surprisingly clear understanding of it. Tyler is a writer under CNET's home energy and utilities category.