"We can see, for the first time, rings of dust surrounding protoplanets made visible by the bright starlight reflecting off of them." ...

The total number of confirmed planets in the universe ticked past 5,000 this week with the addition of 65 exoplanets, NASA says. The space agency said the confirmed planets are just a small ...

Over 5,000 confirmed exoplanets have been discovered ... possible for scientists to study the atmospheres of distant, extrasolar planets. Yet, many enigmas about the atmospheres of planets within ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...

A new AI model from the University of Bern predicts planetary systems likely to host Earth-like planets. It could boost the ...

"The Webb data tells us that planets like WASP-107 b didn't have ... is among the lightest of the more than 5,000 exoplanets found thus far. Despite being nearly as large as Jupiter, WASP-107 ...

“The planet was just so weird,” says Charbonneau ... data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope. Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets that have been detected since, more than 4,000 of them ...

There may be trillions of other planets in our galaxy, the Milky Way (which itself is one of hundreds of billions of other galaxies in the universe). But finding such extrasolar planets ...

To reach this conclusion, the team studied the orbits of thousands of extrasolar planets, or "exoplanets." The team, consisting of researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA ...

We search for extrasolar planets and determine their properties. We develop models that describe the atmospheres of the planets. We want to find out what makes a planet favourable to life. Through ...

Extrasolar planets contextualise the Solar System among a large number of planetary systems with very different properties. Many extrasolar planets show characteristics which are not realised in the ...