WISPIT 2b was first detected using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope Spectro-Polarimetric ...
Just decades after the first exoplanets were identified, our database of the distant worlds—monitored by the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute—has breached a new threshold. Now, astronomers have ...
Exoplanet TOI 1227 b is being bombarded by x-rays from its host red dwarf star, causing it to “shrink from the size of ...
Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...
NASA is celebrating a big milestone after the 6,000th exoplanet discovery was confirmed this week. Exoplanets are worlds outside our solar system. Just over three decades ago, the first exoplanets ...
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James Webb Discovers LIFE in K2-18b

Astronomers have discovered that the exoplanet K2-18b, located 124 light years away in the constellation of Leo, may be one of the most promising candidates for life beyond Earth. With a size more ...
An instrument is set to improve the detection and direct imaging of planets outside our solar system by harnessing the power ...
The discovery of the "hot Jupiter" exoplanet 51 Pegasi b on Oct. 6, 1995 changed the course of astronomical history.