September 19, 2022, Mountain View, CA – The SETI Institute and its partner Unistellar are launching a new exoplanet detection program that will engage citizen scientists worldwide. Amateur astronomers ...

Among the many planets detected orbiting other stars (exoplanets) over the last twenty years, a little less than three hundred periodically pass in front of their star. This is what astronomers call a ...

In the world of astronomy, space telescopes are celebrated for their size. Even before it launches to space, the James Webb Telescope was showing off its massive 21 feet-wide, 4-inch-thick mirror.

Astronomers have measured the passing of a super-Earth in front of a bright, nearby Sun-like star using a ground-based telescope for the first time. The transit of the exoplanet 55 Cancri e is the ...

For the first time, a team of astronomers have measured the passing of a super-Earth in front of a bright, nearby Sun-like star using a ground-based telescope. The transit of the exoplanet 55 Cancri e ...

Due to their relative faintness compared to their parent stars, most known exoplanets have been discovered using indirect detection methods – that is, detecting the effects they have rather than ...

NASA technology discovered a “super-Earth” exoplanet emitting “strange signals.” Rating: What's True: Scientists using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) discovered an exoplanet, ...

The so-called Hycean planet K2–18 b is around twice the size of Earth and orbits in the habitable zone of a star located 120 light-years from our solar system. When you purchase through links on our ...