Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...

Kepler-62f, an Earth-like planet, is considered a possible habitat for life. It might resemble Endor, with lush forests and life-supporting conditions.

The first planet to be discovered inside the habitable zone of a Sun-like star. Its name is Kepler 22-b. When a planet is ...

New insights into the extreme conditions behind "disintegrating planets" reveals how they are consumed by the heat of their ...

Kepler-22b, 600 light-years away ... Proxima Centauri b, Earth's closest exoplanet at over 4 light-years, orbits in its star's habitable zone, warranting future research exploration.

open image in gallery This artist’s concept shows what exoplanet K2-18 b could look like based on science data (NASA, CSA, ESA, J. Olmstead (STS) “We worked on data analysis for years ...

Since K2-22b’s host star is part of a binary system, in which two stars orbit each other, such perturbations are to be expected. Exoplanet researchers have anticipated these observations since ...

The second paper is "A Disintegrating Rocky World Shrouded in Dust and Gas: Mid-IR Observations of K2-22b using JWST." The lead author is Nick Tusay, a PhD student at Penn State working in the Center ...

Mid-IR Observations of K2-22b using JWST.” The lead author is Nick Tusay, a PhD student at Penn State working in the Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds. This paper is hereafter referred ...

One of these exoplanets, HD 20794d, is likely to be a rocky planet in the habitable zone of its parent star, the G-dwarf HD 20794. “HD 20794, around which HD 20794d orbits, is not an ordinary star,” ...

Researchers have thus far discovered around 5,000 weird and wonderful exoplanets. Kepler-7b for example, is a large, hot version of our own solar system’s Jupiter. The first exoplanet to have its ...