Interest in steam world exoplanets really heated up in October 2024 when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovered the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected a possible gas giant the size of Saturn in the stellar system nearest our own ...

"We estimate that our galaxy is home to 20 times more rogue planets than stars – trillions of worlds wandering alone," research author and NASA senior scientist, David Bennett, said in a statement.

Seeking rogue planets Microlensing is a technique astronomers use to study distant stars and search for exoplanets. As stars in our galaxy move, they can align with more distant stars. The ...

The orbital eccentricity distribution of planets orbiting M dwarfs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023; 120 (23) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2217398120 ...

The green planet, dubbed EPIC 201238110.02, is the only one in the new haul that might be friendly to life. Photograph by NASA/JPL (Neptune), NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring (Earth ...

Of these, 68 are approximately Earth-size; 288 are super-Earth-size; 662 are Neptune-size; 165 are the size of Jupiter and 19 are larger than Jupiter. Of the 54 new planet candidates found in the ...

Our galaxy may have acquired some new real estate. NASA has discovered an Earth-size planet orbiting around a faraway star — and it could be habitable. Dubbed TOI 700 e, the exoplanet is the ...

Welcome to Earth, extreme edition. In a new study, a team of astrophysicists, including two researchers at CU Boulder, have discovered a small and rocky world orbiting a star far from Earth—similar to ...

This handout image of the giant, active galaxy NGC 1275, obtained August 21, 2008 was taken using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescopes Advanced Camera for Surveys in July and August 2006.

The telescope, expected to lift off between October 2026 and May 2027, may have the potential to spot 400 such rogue planets that are similar in mass to Earth, according to new research. It’s ...