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Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...
An international team of astronomers has found a new super-Earth exoplanet, TOI-1846 b, using NASA 's Transiting Exoplanet ...
Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme. At least, that's what astronomers found when ...
Learn more about WASP-121b, the exoplanet so hot it could vaporize iron.
Orbiting its star in an elliptical path at less than half the distance between Earth and the Sun, this exoplanet offers a ...
The clingy planet orbits so close to its star, it triggers powerful explosions of radiation that eat away at its atmosphere.
Astronomers using the European Space Agency's Cheops mission have caught an exoplanet that seems to be triggering flares of radiation from the star it orbits. These tremendous explosions are blasting ...
The first ever recorded 'planet with a death wish' orbits so close to its host star that it triggers huge flares of radiation ...
How light is light? The James Webb Space Telescope has just been able to directly image a planet so light and faint that, in ...
Readers doubtless know that metals expand when heated. As explained in a NASA blog post that’s a problem for space telescopes because if their components warm and expand it can mean that the shape of ...
When the search for habitable exoplanets requires a 1,000 times more stable telescope than James Webb Space Telescope, even ...