NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is now providing valuable data to help scientists discover and study exciting new exoplanets, or planets beyond our Solar System
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Distant exoplanet “weighed” by space observatories
Prolonged data collect by ESA’s Gaia and Hipparcos satellites revealed the mass of exoplanet Beta Pictoris b
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Famous exoplanet’s doppelgänger found
Gas giant beta Pictoris b has been heavily studied since 2009, but now its identical twin has been spotted orbiting two brown dwarf stars
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Why does a gas planet not have a gas moon?
Do all moons have to be solid? Let’s find out.
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NASA identifies the science of extraterrestrial life
Researchers in astronomy, biology and geology have come together in the search for life on distant planets
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REPLAY: NASA launches its next planet-hunting mission
Wherever you are in the world, don’t miss the blast off of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) by tuning into our livestream
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Astronomers use car engines to investigate hot exoplanet atmospheres
The results of a collaboration between French astronomers and applied combustion experts have been presented at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science (EWASS)
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Lethal stellar flares bombard Earth’s closest exoplanet
In early 2017, Proxima Centauri exhibited a tremendous stellar flare that could have damaged our closest exoplanet, Proxima b
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Exoplanet found to be hotter than most stars
A new ‘hot Jupiter’ has been discovered and it possesses some infernal conditions
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Exoplanet with density of Styrofoam discovered 320 light years away
Puffed-up planet KELT-11b could help astronomers understand the evolution of highly-inflated worlds
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Rapidly changing winds reveal secrets of hot giant exoplanet
The winds on HAT-P-7b are changing significantly, helping us to understand the magnetic fields of heated gas planets
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Space telescope ‘hears’ stellar heartbeat from a planetary companion
“Just in time for Valentine’s Day, we have discovered the first example of a planet that seems to be causing a heartbeat-like behaviour in its host star”
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Garnet planets could be the most habitable worlds in the universe
Astronomers and geoscientists have joined forces using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to find out what makes a rocky planet Earth-like
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Giant rings around exoplanet found to turn the wrong way
Researchers who were previously involved in the discovery of a ringed alien world have now calculated that the giant rings may persist more than 100,000 years
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Venus-like exoplanet could have oxygen atmosphere
New research suggests that GJ 1132b’s atmosphere has a thin wispy atmosphere baked to a temperature of around 450 degrees Fahrenheit
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Astronomers find warm alien Jupiters have unexpected companions
There’s strong evidence for the existence of two distinct types of exoplanet
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Astronomers find planet with triple sunrises and sunsets
The exoplanet HD 131399Ab is unlike any other known world
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Astronomers find unusual amount of giant planets in star cluster
There are far more worlds of the hot Jupiter type than expected Messier 67
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Astronomers discover largest “Tatooine” planet yet
This planet, detected using the Kepler spacecraft, also has the widest orbit
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Cloudy exoplanets could be hiding an abundance of water
Astronomers have found many hot Jupiters with water in their atmospheres, but others appear to have none