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Billions of exoplanets are believed to be out there awaiting discovery. AI—with its ability to sift through mountains of data ...

A team of scientists has found a new planet which orbits the wrong way around its host star. The planet, named WASP-17, and orbiting a star 1000 light years away, was found by the UK’s WASP project in ...

Exoplanets—planets that orbit stars beyond our solar system—have transformed our understanding of the universe. Since the first confirmed discovery in the 1990s, more than 5,000 have been identified, ...

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit their stars in unexpected, elongated paths. Unlike their close-orbiting ...

Weirdly, that title is not as big a stretch as you might think. NASA's Deep Impact space probe slammed a large copper block into a comet back in July, 2005. However, the probe sailed on, and ...

This documentary investigates the race to find life on extrasolar planets, revealing how new telescopes and bold missions may uncover alien worlds within the next five years... Should you shut down ...

A new extrasolar planet has been found at the ESO La Silla Observatory as a companion to iota Horologii (iota Hor). This 5.4-mag solar-type star is located at a distance of 56 light-years and is just ...

Most exoplanet hunters chase biosignatures the way bird dogs chase the scent of a quail. But in a talk at the European Astrobiology Institute’s recent BEACON 25 conference in Reykjavik, astrophysicist ...

Scientists have detected water vapor in the atmosphere of the planet tau Boötis b, which orbits a star named tau Boötis, and their new technique could help us find more planets with water outside of ...

The finding of an extrasolar planet around star 51 Peg marks a significant milestone in the search for extraterrestrial life. Ever since astronomers realized that stars were like the sun, just farther ...