How would detecting methane help astronomers identify if exoplanets, or even exomoons, have life as we know it, or even as we ...

Sharon Xuesong Wang, a postdoctoral fellow at DTM, will give a talk titled "Finding Terrestrial Exoplanets with Precise Radial Velocities" at 11 a.m. on Thursday, March 16, 2017, in the Greenewalt ...

Scientists are examining its massive dust trails, offering rare insights into the composition of terrestrial exoplanets. Researchers from MIT... Astronomers have detected water and carbon dioxide ...

By studying the Sun’s acoustic waves, scientists are uncovering its hidden dynamics, refining stellar models, and influencing ...

ESA’s mission Plato, PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars, will use its 26 cameras to study terrestrial exoplanets in orbits up to the habitable zone of Sun-like stars. The mission will ...

"I wanted to create the dashboard because there currently isn't a go-to place to see which types of planets are being observed by JWST and answering questions like: 'How many terrestrial planets has ...

Astronomers have found two planets around two separate stars that are succumbing to their stars' intense heat.

BD+05 4868 Ab — and other disintegrating exoplanets, for that matter — is a boon for astronomers. These situations allows scientists to investigate the usually hidden interiors of terrestrial ...

New observational data from the James Webb Space Telescope and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the solar system. This provides another piece of the ...

How many terrestrial planets has the JWST observed?'" Lothringer told Space.com. "We have a listing of exoplanet-related observations called TrExoLiSTS created by my collaborator Nikolay Nikolov ...

Supersonic winds on this exoplanet, designated WASP-127b ... per second (0.34 km/sec), making these winds supersonic by our terrestrial standards. The recently discovered extraterrestrial jet ...

An object we thought belonged to the most common category of planet in the galaxy has turned out to be something we've never seen before.