Astronomers have made a remarkable discovery in the Kepler-139 star system, uncovering an alien planet that had previously evaded detection. The newly identified exoplanet, Kepler-139f, is a giant ...

This makes it 35 times the mass of Earth and a year on its planet lasts 355 days, the discoverers noted in their findings published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. The planet was detected after ...

Astronomers have uncovered major size errors in TESS planet data, suggesting we’ve found fewer Earth-like exoplanets than we believed.

An international team of astronomers has uncovered new evidence to explain how pulsing remnants of exploded stars interact ...

The newfound exoplanet, called Kepler-139f, is a gigantic world roughly twice the mass of Neptune and 35 times the mass of ...

Scientists have revealed that radar systems at airports and military bases would shine out like cosmic beacons for any watching civilisations. This means airports like Gatwick and Heathrow could be ...

American space agency NASA announced the discovery of a planetary system that isn't flat, has transit timing variations, and ...

An international research team led by the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) has discovered two new planets performing ...

Fundamentally, the team attributes their findings to “the powerful combination of depth and angular resolution afforded by the James Webb Space Telescope.” “This permits spatially resolved analyses in ...

Tuesday Telescope: A howling wolf in the night sky "Ever since I saw it for the first time, it's been high on my list." ...

A Telescope Collaboration Between Astrophysicists Offers an Unprecedented Opportunity for Discovery One of the first images captured by the NSF-DOE funded Vera C. Rubin Observatory has been dubbed by ...

Webb may have captured the lightest exoplanet ever seen—an infant world shaping the dusty rings of a nearby young star. Its glow, nestled in a perfect gap in the debris, matches where astronomers ...