High-contrast imaging with Keck/NIRC2 reveals that KOI-1623A has a close companion with a separation of 0.704±0.002 arcsec, consisting of a slightly evolved G-type primary and a K-dwarf secondary, ...

Swipe Down for Full Video Story Six hundred and thirty five light years from Earth lies a world that sounds almost too good ...

Thousands of planets have been discovered beyond our solar system, offering clues to where life might thrive and whether ...

News on the exoplanet front has been pretty excellent as of late. NASA’s Kepler space telescope has found 132 confirmed exoplanets and a further 2,740 candidates. But the winning streak was broken ...

Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half of the total—in its almost 10 years of operation. However, most data ...

More than 6,000 exoplanets have been confirmed in the Milky Way, including terrestrial worlds that may be composed mainly of ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to capture the most detailed look yet at the atmosphere of Kepler-51d, a planet so lightweight it has been compared to cotton candy. The new data ...

The other subject is Kepler-62, a "main sequence" star at a similar phase in its evolution as our sun. Using a 3D global climate computer model normally employed to study Earth's environment, the ...

Exoplanets—planets that orbit stars beyond our solar system—have transformed our understanding of the universe. Since the first confirmed discovery in the 1990s, more than 5,000 have been identified, ...

We have developed the RIVERS approach, based on Convolutional DenseNet, to recover the faint signal of these rocky worlds from noisy data.

Astronomers have detected over 5,800 confirmed exoplanets. One extreme class is ultra-hot Jupiters, of particular interest because they can provide a unique window into planetary atmospheric dynamics.