In a paper slated for publication April 14 in Science, Currie reports the first exoplanet jointly discovered through direct imaging and precision astrometry, a new indirect method that identifies a ...

The burgeoning exoplanet catalog has delivered a multitude ... the graphic adding texture, color and shape as the real objects they are, some of them possibly harboring life." ...

Here’s how it works. Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but are unlike any in our own solar system. The two exoplanets ...

Data from the massive telescope also suggests the exoplanet, the name for a planet outside the solar system, may also have a surface covered in water and an atmosphere rich with hydrogen.

Named HD 20794 D, the newly discovered exoplanet orbits a star similar to the Sun, and researchers believe it may be able to sustain liquid water, which is vital for life, as we know it ...

An illustration of one of Barnard’s Star's four exoplanets. © Illustration by International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Proctor/J. Pollard Astronomers ...

And that’s exactly what scientists have been doing for decades: searching for exoplanets, worlds orbiting faraway stars. They’ve had tremendous success: So far, NASA’s official count of ...

The AstroAI initiative, launched in 2023, uses AI to search for life on exoplanets, such as the exoplanet WASP-39 b imagined in this illustration. IMAGE NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) Could ...