identify exoplanets orbiting the brightest stars just ... “This new planet we’ve discovered is still weird, but it's one step closer to being somewhat like our neighborhood planets,” said ...

Astronomers are detecting hundreds of exoplanets — worlds that don't orbit the sun — each year. Here are some of the new 2024 ...

That means the peculiar exoplanet has a year that lasts just ... "That's why it looks really weird. We don't know why it still has an atmosphere when other 'hot Neptunes' that are much smaller ...

Artist's concept depicts new research that has expanded our understanding of exoplanet WASP-69 b's "tail." NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) Astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii ...

Normally, exoplanets would have to remain hidden from ... If she showed it to a colleague, they would all ask: "Really? That's really weird!" Because they know that such a twisted dust disk ...

SEE ALSO: Scientists haven't found a rocky exoplanet with air. But now they have a plan. With the powerful James Webb Space Telescope, getting to know these worlds is getting easier. The leading ...

Although exoplanet science is on firm ground now ... “The planet was just so weird,” says Charbonneau, now the Fred Kavli Professor of Astrophysics at Harvard University.

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A new study has identified an exoplanet that is just 3 million years old — around 1,500 times younger than Earth — alongside a misaligned protoplanetary disk that researchers cannot explain.

Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to discover new worlds goes on, we’re steadily learning more about the ...

Hurt, K. Miller (Caltech/IPAC) It’s rare that 3 million years old would be considered young, but that’s the case for a recently discovered exoplanet. The study of planets outside our solar ...

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a peculiar exoplanet named Phoenix, which has puzzled astronomers due to its unexpected atmospheric retention despite harsh ...