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Massive new NASA exoplanet catalog unveils 126 extreme and exotic worlds
Space via Yahoo News· 13 hours agoYet, despite these planets being so different than Earth and its neighbors, maybe they can still...
Astronomers Discover the Second-Lightest "Cotton Candy" Exoplanet to Date.
Universe Today· 6 days agoThe hunt for extrasolar planets has revealed some truly interesting candidates, not the least of...
NASA space telescope finds Earth-size exoplanet that's 'not a bad place' to hunt for life
Space via Yahoo News· 2 days agoNASA exoplanet-hunter TESS has found a temperate, Earth-size world in the habitable zone of its red...
Mysterious 'puffy' planet may finally be explained by James Webb Space Telescope
Live Science via Yahoo News· 23 hours agoThe exoplanet WASP-107 b is one of the least dense planets ever discovered. New James Webb telescope...
Stars give tiny planets a gravitational 'squeeze' to strip away their atmospheres
Space via Yahoo News· 4 days agoModeling distant planets has revealed that tidal forces generated by their parent stars can combine...
Young 'cotton candy' exoplanet the size of Jupiter may be shrinking into a super-Earth
SPACE.com· 4 days agoAs well as being one of the lightest planets ever discovered, the extrasolar planet or "exoplanet"...
New Saturn-mass exoplanet detected by astronomers
Phys.org· 2 days agoThe finding was reported in a research paper published May 12 on the pre-print server arXiv. To date, TESS has identified more than 7,100 candidate...
The Habitable Worlds Observatory Could See Lunar and Solar 'Exo-Eclipses'
Universe Today· 4 days agoA future space observatory could use exo-eclipses to tease out exomoon populations. If you’re like...