NASA’s Tally of Planets Outside Our Solar System Reaches 6,000 - NASA

The milestone highlights the accelerating rate of discoveries, just over three decades since the first exoplanets were found.

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Discovery Alert: ‘Super-Earth’ Swings from Super-Heated to Super-Chill

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Discovery Alert: A Rare Glimpse of a Newborn Planet - NASA Science

The Discovery A huge planet with a long name – IRAS 04125+2902 b – is really just a baby: only 3 million years old. And because such infant worlds are usually hidden inside obscuring disks of debris, it is the youngest planet so far discovered using the dominant method of planet detection. Key Facts The […]

Discovery Alert: A Rare Glimpse of a Newborn Planet - NASA Science

The Discovery A huge planet with a long name – IRAS 04125+2902 b – is really just a baby: only 3 million years old. And because such infant worlds are usually hidden inside obscuring disks of debris, it is the youngest planet so far discovered using the dominant method of planet detection. Key Facts The […]

Discovery Alert: With Six New Worlds, 5,500 Discovery Milestone Passed! - NASA Science

On Aug. 24, 2023, more than three decades after the first confirmation of planets beyond our own solar system, scientists announced the discovery of six new exoplanets, stretching that number to 5,502. From zero exoplanet confirmations to over 5,500 in just a few decades, this new milestone marks another major step in the journey to […]

Discovery Alert: Spock’s Home Planet Goes ‘Poof’ - NASA Science

The discovery A planet thought to orbit the star 40 Eridani A – host to Mr. Spock’s fictional home planet, Vulcan, in the “Star Trek” universe – is really a kind of astronomical illusion caused by the pulses and jitters of the star itself, a new study shows. Key facts The possible detection of a […]

NASA’s Webb Hints at Possible Atmosphere Surrounding Rocky Exoplanet - NASA Science

While the planet is too hot to be habitable, detecting its atmosphere could provide insights into the early conditions of Earth, Venus, and Mars. Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have detected atmospheric gases surrounding 55 Cancri e, a hot rocky exoplanet 41 light-years from Earth. This is the best evidence to date […]

NASA’s Webb Hints at Possible Atmosphere Surrounding Rocky Exoplanet - NASA Science

Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have detected atmospheric gases surrounding 55 Cancri e, a hot rocky exoplanet 41 light-years from Earth. This is the best evidence to date for the existence of any rocky planet atmosphere outside our solar system.  Renyu Hu from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, is […]

Discovery Alert: A 'Super-Earth' in the Habitable Zone - NASA Science

A newly discovered 'super-Earth' dwells in the habitable zone of its parent star – and might have a roughly Earth-sized companion.

NASA Data Reveals Possible Reason Some Exoplanets Are Shrinking - NASA

A new study could explain the ‘missing’ exoplanets between super-Earths and sub-Neptunes.

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