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 ...
The search of other worlds is a field of science on the cusp of a revolution. By unpacking the exoplanet ...
The ESA’s CHEOPS telescope has finally launched kick-starting the next phase in exoplanet investigations.
As the Hans Sigrist Prize is claimed by Ignas Snellen for groundbreaking exoplanet research, the message is clear--the search for ...
The last decade of space exploration has exceeded even our wildest expectations. And this is only the beginning.
A study suggests that Earth may be a statistical anomaly. Perphaps, we are not as insignificant as we think.
K2-18 b is probably the most Earth-like planet we've discovered so far.
Christened LHS 3844b, the exoplanet is 1.3 times larger than our planet and orbits its star in 11 hours.
The planet is so close to its host star that it only has a 5.36 day-long orbit. At this distance, ...
The solar system is very different from our own.
The map is amazing.
Researchers had hoped that at least 300 of them would be the size of our home planet. Well, they found ...
The novel method can reveal spicy new insights into the lives of planets orbiting stars far, far away.
Helium was predicted to be one of the most common elements of exoplanets, but was only recently observed for the ...
The method is a lot like tracing the ripples made by a rock thrown in a pond.
A cloudless exoplanet has become a benchmark for astronomers to gauge sodium content in alien worlds.
It took abnormally look considering helium is the 2nd most abundant element in the universe.
It will have time to find just a couple more candidate exoplanets.
Three of the newly-discovered planets are so-called super-Earths.
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