Discovery Alert: Glowing Cloud Points to a Cosmic Collision
3 min read Discovery Alert: Glowing Cloud Points to a Cosmic Collision This illustration depicts the aftermath of a collision between two giant exoplanets. What...
Category : Exoplanets
Discovery Alert: A ‘Super-Earth’ in the Habitable Zone
4 min read Discovery Alert: A ‘Super-Earth’ in the Habitable Zone This illustration shows one way that planet TOI-715 b, a super-Earth in the habitable...
Discovery Alert: Earth-sized Planet Has a ‘Lava Hemisphere’
4 min read Discovery Alert: Earth-sized Planet Has a ‘Lava Hemisphere’ Like Kepler-10 b, illustrated above, the exoplanet HD 63433 d is a small, rocky...
NASA’s Hubble Observes Exoplanet Atmosphere Changing Over 3 Years
4 min read NASA’s Hubble Observes Exoplanet Atmosphere Changing Over 3 Years By combining several years of observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope along with...
Seeing and Believing: 15 Years of Exoplanet Images
5 Min Read Seeing and Believing: 15 Years of Exoplanet Images Beta Pictoris is located about 60 light-years away toward the constellation of Pictor (the...
Discovery Alert: Watch the Synchronized Dance of a 6-Planet System
Discovery Alert: Watch the Synchronized Dance of a 6-Planet System The discovery: Six planets orbit their central star in a rhythmic beat, a rare case of...
NASA Data Reveals Possible Reason Some Exoplanets Are Shrinking
6 min read NASA Data Reveals Possible Reason Some Exoplanets Are Shrinking This artist’s concept shows what the sub-Neptune exoplanet TOI-421 b might look like....
NASA’s Roman Mission Gears Up for a Torrent of Future Data
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team is exploring ways to support community efforts that will prepare for the deluge of data the mission will...
Discovery Alert: The Planet that Shouldn’t Be There
3 min read Discovery Alert: The Planet that Shouldn’t Be There Artist’s rendering of planet 8 Ursae Minoris b – also known as “Halla” –...
