The supposed "strange signals" were not mysterious at all, but commonly observed transit signals, according to NASA.

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

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Astronomers have confirmed a Saturn-size world drifting alone in deep space roughly 10,000 light-years from Earth, a discovery that turns a once-theoretical idea into a measured reality. The planet ...

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FREWSBURG — Recently, a new discovery has been made in the astronomy world in the form of a new exoplanet, Wolf 327b, which orbits the nearby red dwarf star, Wolf 327. The discovery has local ...

In the constellation Virgo, 700 light years away from Earth, the planet WASP-39b orbits the star WASP-39. The gas giant, which takes little more than four days to complete one orbit, is one of the ...

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...

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Even JWST can’t separate these tiny planets from their host stars – as they orbit their stars too closely. But there is a way to “see” the planet’s atmosphere from this entangled light. When you ...