Neptune, TOI-270 d provides a critical opportunity to understand atmospheric composition and planetary evolution in a ...

A breathtaking new video compresses more than a decade of deep-space observation into a few seconds, revealing the hypnotic motion of distant worlds. The animation, created by astrophysicist Jason ...

The solar gravitation lens (SGL) has much potential as a telescope. This point in space, located about 650 AU away from the ...

Astronomers have been trying to discover evidence that worlds exist around stars other than our Sun since the 19th century.

Super-Earths are exoplanets that are much larger than our home, but smaller than Neptune and Uranus. They are likely much more common than assumed so far. There should be at least one super-Earth ...

Using the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet), an international team of researchers has discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought, ...

A recent study, led by astrophysicist Nikku Madhusudhan at the University of Cambridge, suggests the answer might be no. Based on observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the study points ...

An international research team with Korean participation has discovered a super Earth-like exoplanet, with the global academic journal Science publishing the findings. The Korea AeroSpace ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Using the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet), an international team of researchers has discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than ...

(Nanowerk News) Using the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet), an international team of researchers has discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than ...

The discovery came after a small extrasolar planet, or "exoplanet," in a wide orbit around its star was discovered, courtesy of a gravitational "microlensing" event designated OGLE-2016-BLG-0007.

An artistic rendering of an exoplanet in a tight orbit, followed by a dusty, comet-like tail of debris. Jose-Luis Olivares / MIT Astronomers have spotted a distant planet shedding matter with each ...