New Exoplanet Research Method Could Uncover Thousands of ...

Hundreds of extrasolar planets (around other stars) have been found using several methods, including transit, 'wobble' and microlensing. New ...

Astronomers discover "weird" Neptune-like exoplanet ... - CBS News

Exoplanet TOI-1231 b is "oddly reminiscent" of Neptune, scientists say, and could contain clouds with water.

International Planet Hunters Discover Dozens of Strange New Worlds

Although thousands of planets have been discovered orbiting other stars, our understanding of them remains limited. A NASA catalog featuring ...

Exoplanet Hunting: A Search for New Worlds - The Royal Society of ...

The Kepler telescope used the transit method to detect exoplanets: catching planets as they orbited around a star. When the exoplanet would “ ...

Astronomers discover 6 possible new exomoons - EarthSky

Astronomers have now discovered what may be 6 more exomoons orbiting exoplanets ranging from 200 to 3,000 light-years away. There are hundreds ...

What the Discovery of Hundreds of New Planets Means for ...

I could see none of the actual planets—lost in the glare of their stars, exoplanets can only rarely be discerned through even the largest telescopes—but just ...

UH astronomers help uncover array of strange exoplanet worlds

An international scientific team, with major contributions by astronomers at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA), has announced a new ...

Meet the NASA scientist opening up exoplanet research

With the James Webb Space Telescope launch, exoplanet research is entering a new era. NASA scientist Natasha Batalha wants to make sure everyone has access, ...

Can you find the exoplanet? - astroEDU

One strategy is the “radial velocity method”, based on the observation of the movement of the star itself due to its interaction with the planet ...

Exoplanet "Water Worlds" Could Hold Unfathomably Deep Alien ...

A wild new theory suggests that exoplanets two to four times the size of Earth, known as sub-Neptunes, are likely to be water worlds rather than gas dwarfs.

Computing and the search for new planets | MIT News

Computation, in the form of machine learning and artificial intelligence, is helping the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), ...

Exoplanets: Alien worlds beyond our solar system - Live Science

Historically, the most successful exoplanet detection methods have worked by inferring the tiny effect that planets have on their parent stars, ...

Citizen scientists identify nearby two-planet system - Oxford Physics

This method, known as the transit method, has been spectacularly successful, having led to the detection of thousands of exoplanets over the ...

Researchers find exciting potential for little-known exoplanet

New research using data collected by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has revealed that a little-known exoplanet called K2-18b could ...

The Future of Exoplanet Research - YouTube

What's the best way to use telescope time to search for exoplanets? How many will we be able to find in a best-case scenario?

In a first, astronomers find a potential planet outside the Milky Way

The exoplanet candidate is about the size of Saturn and located in a Whirlpool galaxy system 28 million light-years from Earth.

Discoveries of exoplanets - Wikipedia

Some exoplanets have been imaged directly by telescopes, but the vast majority have been detected through indirect methods, such as the transit method and the ...

Mind the Gap: Scientists Use Stellar Mass to Link Exoplanets to ...

“This new understanding of stellar mass dependencies will help to guide the search for small, rocky planets like Earth in the solar neighborhood ...

NASA Astronomers Discover 715 New Exoplanets - Sci.News

Astronomers of NASA's Kepler mission announced yesterday the discovery of 715 new extrasolar planets orbiting 305 stars in our Milky Way Galaxy.

Astronomers discover 'young Jupiter' exoplanet | Stanford Report

While NASA's Kepler space observatory has discovered thousands of planets, it does so indirectly by detecting a loss of starlight as a planet ...