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 ...
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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 ...
Astronomers observe exoplanet for the first time using optical interferometry
The novel method can reveal spicy new insights into the lives of planets orbiting stars far, far away.
Helium exoplanet inflates like a balloon
Helium was predicted to be one of the most common elements of exoplanets, but was only recently observed for the ...
Scientists find baby exoplanets using a completely new method
The method is a lot like tracing the ripples made by a rock thrown in a pond.
Cloud-free exoplanet provides best evidence of sodium in planets outside our solar system so far
A cloudless exoplanet has become a benchmark for astronomers to gauge sodium content in alien worlds.
Astronomers find helium in exoplanet’s atmosphere for the first time
It took abnormally look considering helium is the 2nd most abundant element in the universe.
Kepler — the spacecraft that discovered thousands of alien worlds — is running on its last drops of fuel
It will have time to find just a couple more candidate exoplanets.
15 new planets discovered — one is potentially habitable
Three of the newly-discovered planets are so-called super-Earths.