![An artist's conception of HD 209458 b, an exoplanet whose atmosphere is being torn off at more than 35,000 km/hour by the radiation of its close-by parent star. This hot Jupiter was the first alien world discovered via the transit method, and the first planet to have its atmosphere studied. [NASA/European Space Agency/Alfred Vidal-Madjar (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS)]](https://cdn.zmescience.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/247271_web-1-350x250.jpg)
Stellar flares can strip away the atmosphere of planets, make them less habitable
A new study highlights the importance of solar flares and space weather in reducing the habitability of exoplanets.
Tag: exoplanet
Astronomers stunned by hellish world where it rains rocks on oceans of molten lava
Scientists hope to verify their observations with the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope in 2021.
‘Lonely’ Rogue Planet Discovered Wandering the Milky Way
Astronomers have discovered a free-floating planet, not associated with any parent star wandering our galaxy.
New study lists 24 exoplanets that may be better for life than Earth
Isn't this a plot twist?
Machine learning helps identify 50 new exoplanets, more to come
It's not perfect yet, but it's still effective.
Rogue Planets Could Outnumber Stars in the Milky Way
We might have to revise the commonly accepted image of planets orbiting a parent star.
Astronomers may have found a twin solar system thousands of light-years away
Observations suggest that the exoplanet and its parent star are strikingly similar to Earth and the Sun.
Scientists find extreme exoplanet raining with iron
On this ultra-hot gas giant, the weather report for today is cloudy, with a chance of molten iron falling from ...
One year on this exoplanet lasts only 18 hours
The planet could fall into its host star in the next decade.
The Exoplanet Hunter’s Toolkit: the science of searching for other worlds
The search of other worlds is a field of science on the cusp of a revolution. By unpacking the exoplanet ...
New European exoplanet-hunting telescope launches into space
The ESA’s CHEOPS telescope has finally launched kick-starting the next phase in exoplanet investigations.
Exoplanet researcher awarded for groundbreaking work
As the Hans Sigrist Prize is claimed by Ignas Snellen for groundbreaking exoplanet research, the message is clear--the search for ...
Hunting for exoplanets: past and future
The last decade of space exploration has exceeded even our wildest expectations. And this is only the beginning.
There are over 700 quintillion planets in the universe — but there’s no place like home
A study suggests that Earth may be a statistical anomaly. Perphaps, we are not as insignificant as we think.
How scientists detected water on an alien planet for the first time
K2-18 b is probably the most Earth-like planet we've discovered so far.
Spitzer confirms: no atmosphere on nearby exoplanet
Christened LHS 3844b, the exoplanet is 1.3 times larger than our planet and orbits its star in 11 hours.
NASA finds new exoplanet that orbits three different suns
The planet is so close to its host star that it only has a 5.36 day-long orbit. At this distance, ...
TESS telescope discovers three intriguing close-by exoplanets
The solar system is very different from our own.
NASA produces stunning map of all the exoplanets we’ve discovered
The map is amazing.
Alien-world-hunting satellite finds its first Earth-sized planet
Researchers had hoped that at least 300 of them would be the size of our home planet. Well, they found ...