The existence of the planet, named AT2021uey b, took years to verify. Astronomers have located a rare exoplanet on the edge of the Milky Way. The exoplanet, a gas giant named AT2021uey b, orbits a low ...

"Barnard b is one of the lowest-mass exoplanets known and one of the few known with a mass less than that of Earth." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected what could be distinct signs of life on a “potentially habitable” world nearly 50 million lightyears away. Researchers from the Universities of Michigan and ...

Researchers have developed a new coronagraph—an optical device that blocks out light from a bright source—that could make it possible to see distant exoplanets obscured by light from their parent ...

No planets cooler than about 35.33 degrees Fahrenheit had ever been detected. An exoplanet discovered in 2020 contains the coldest temperatures ever measured on a planetary body, according to ...

An artist’s rendering of planet K2-18b. Credit: A. Smith, N. Madhusudhan (University of Cambridge) FLORA LICHTMAN: This is Science Friday. I’m Flora Lichtman. Later in the hour, using science to ...

Recently, an exoplanet just a short 15 light-years from Earth was discovered, setting the scientific community abuzz. This newly found celestial body boasts a unique gravitational pull, a feature that ...