This gas giant is nearly three billion miles away. But scientists have found planets way beyond our own solar system. Known as exoplanets, these make Neptune seem close indeed. The closest exoplanet – ...
These exoplanets (planets orbiting a star other than our sun) orbit close to red dwarf stars that are smaller and cooler than the sun, and which make up over 75% of the 200 billion stars in the ...
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 ...
This Collection highlights the results from the Early Science Release programme of the JWST telescope focused on transiting hot giant exoplanets. With its extended wavelength range and its ...