Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

"We've often seen the 'baby pictures' of planets forming, but until now, the 'teenage years' have been a missing link." ...

Dr. Leonardos Gkouvelis, researcher at LMU's University Observatory Munich and member of the ORIGINS Excellence Cluster, has ...

Trained on data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting missions, the open-source ExoMiner++ deep learning model uses an advanced ...

"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet." ...

Measurements of the masses of exoplanets orbiting a young star have identified a system of low-density ‘super-puff’ planets. Read the paper: A young progenitor for the most common planetary systems in ...

In a groundbreaking revelation, recent research indicates that the universe may harbor far more potentially habitable exoplanets than scientists had previously believed. This shift in understanding ...

NASA’s AI, ExoMiner++, is scanning TESS data, flagging 7,000 potential exoplanets. Open-source and powerful, it separates ...

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Scientists may need to broaden their horizons in their search for alien life.

One such mystery, described in a recent paper in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, concerns circumbinary exoplanets—or rather, the shortage thereof—in the now 6,000+ exoplanets confirmed to date.