Exoplanet

Super-Earth, three gas giants discovered by high school students using TESS data

The mentorship program the students were part of, connects high schoolers interested in research with real-world scientists at Harvard and MIT.

First-ever cloudless 'hot Jupiter' with four-day year discovered in exoplanet survey

The gas giant was first detected in 2012 using the Wide Angle Search for Plants (WASP) South survey, but this is the first time that its atmosphere has been studied

Newly discovered Earth-like rogue planet might be smallest free floating world

Of the many rogue planets found, they are mostly massive in size, often ranging from two to 40 times the mass of Jupiter.

Scientists find two dozen ‘superhabitable’ exoplanets located over 100 light-years away

Looking among the 4,500 known exoplanets, 24 planets were shortlisted that ranged from anywhere between five billion years and eight billion years old.

NASA's TESS completes its two year primary mission; begins extended journey

TESS had spotted 66 confirmed exoplanets during the primary mission and there are over 2100 celestial bodies.

Human immune system is not prepared to detect and respond to space germs

Microorganisms could exist beyond Earth and they could be based on different amino acids than the life forms on Earth.

Bare core of a doomed, rocky Jupiter-like planet spotted near a distant star

This is the largest rocky planet ever discovered and the first planetary core ever found, researchers say.

Astronomers discover two super-Earth exoplanets, orbiting a star, 11 light-years away

A group of astronomers working on the Red Dots project observed the star using the European Southern Observatory in Chile for three months.

There are around six billion Earth-like planets in the Milky Way galaxy, say scientists

To be considered Earth-like, a planet must be rocky, roughly Earth-sized and orbiting Sun-like stars and should orbit in the habitable zones of its star.

Tiny CubeSat mission ASTERIA breaks record for smallest satellite to detect an exoplanet

Researchers argue that the finding validates the role small spacecrafts can play in astrophysics and astronomy research.