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Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has detected a new exoplanet ...
Up to 200 worlds investigated by NASA's exoplanet-hunting TESS satellite could be bigger than predicted, a finding that could ...
Magnetic fields play an important—if sometimes underappreciated—part in planetary systems. Without a strong magnetic field, ...
According to the paper laying out the research behind the discovery, "TOI-1846b is a super-Earth-sized planet, with a radius ...
Astronomers have used the Chandra X-ray telescope to observe an exoplanet as it disintegrates because its parent star is ...
Using the European Space Agency’s Characterizing Exoplanets Satellite (CHEOPS) telescope, a team of astronomers ...
Astronomers may have solved the mystery of why exoplanets of a certain size seem to be so rare. In a new study, scientists have found evidence that certain rare sizes of planets become more common ...
Astronomers have found rocky exoplanets about the size of Earth, and some of them reside in the habitable zones of their stars, where conditions are just right for liquid water.
NASA's new telescope could spot thousands of exoplanets and hundreds of Earth-size rogue planets By Ashley Strickland July 28, 2023 / 9:44 AM PDT / CBS Sacramento ...
A monster exoplanet as big as 10 times the size of Jupiter has emerged from the stellar gas and dust surrounding a young star ...
From the brightness variations of its host star, an exoplanet’s size and other properties can be determined. In order to avoid mistakes, the star’s magnetic field is decisive 700 light years ...
The planetary system harboring Kepler-138 b, the first exoplanet smaller than Earth with both it mass and size measured. All three planets known to orbit the star have been characterized by NASA ...