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The lone planet confirmed to be in the system is squeezed in between the two, orbiting at a distance similar to Earth's ...

How it works Diagram showing simulated light from an exoplanet and its companion star (far left) moving through the new ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new giant exoplanet around an M-dwarf star (GEMS). The ...

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NASA has confirmed the discovery of a mysterious new planet beyond Neptune, shaking up our understanding of the outer reaches ...

HD 209458 b, nicknamed "Osiris," is one of the first exoplanets seen passing in front of its star, and it's about 159 light-years from Earth. Kepler-186f is the first Earth-sized planet discovered in ...

Exoplanets—planets that orbit stars beyond our solar system—have transformed our understanding of the universe. Since the ...

We study both at the Earth and Planets Laboratory. Researchers directly imaged the newly forming exoplanet AB Aurigae b over a 13-year span using Hubble’s Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) ...

WD 1856+534b—a freezing world with a surface temperature of -125 degrees Fahrenheit—exists where planets are normally scoured ...

Roman was similarly designed with a focused set of science goals, including exploring an uncharted region of exoplanet discovery space and investigating the nature of dark energy. However, since those ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of two new exoplanets, a few times more massive than Earth, orbiting a sun-like star known as HD 35843. The finding was reported in a ...