Earlier this month, NASA announced the first-ever direct images ... temperate terrestrial planets around our smallest and coolest neighbours," the authors who found these two Earth-like worlds ...

For decades, scientists thought that stars much smaller than our Sun couldn't form giant planets. That theory just took a ...

The Earth-size world was discovered by the Search for habitable Planets Eclipsing Ultra-cool Stars (SPECULOOS) project located at the Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile.

The newly discovered planets orbit an ultracool dwarf star and one is in the habitable zone, making it a prime target for further investigation. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

(We don’t have a picture of it yet, but the planet is a gas giant ... Thanks to our ever-expanding sight into the cosmos, we’ve discovered over 5,000 exoplanets since 1992.

A bizarre exoplanet with metallic clouds that rain titanium onto its scalding-hot interior is the shiniest planet ever discovered ... on the solar maximum won "best space submission" at the ...

“To steam up a bathroom you can either cool ... the planet is what astronomers call an “ultra-hot Neptune” — but it’s the first time a planet like this has been found so close to its ...

In fact, it is one of the best candidates for such a planet ever to be found, according to Charles Cadieux, a Ph.D. student at the Université de Montréal who led the international team of ...

The lightest planet ever discovered is the superpuffy Kepler 51d ... “So it’s clear that this planet is one of the best targets we have for studying atmospheric effects.

Two specific chemical footprints were found in the atmosphere ... we know about this planet, a Hycean world with an ocean that is teeming with life is the scenario that best fits the data we ...