"It's like trying to spot a fish by looking for ripples in a pond, rather than trying to see the fish itself." ...

Though you won't get the same views with your eyes as you do with instruments like Hubble, JWST, or even a backyard telescope, there are still plenty of cool things to look at in the night sky with ...

The newly spotted exoplanets orbit the second coolest star ever found ... of stars simultaneously, looking for slight dimmings that might be caused by planets passing in front of their stars ...

Around this cool red dwarf are seven ... to study the planets' chemical compositions, others are cutting to the chase: looking for signs of intelligent alien civilizations in this system 40 ...

On the next clear September evening, look to the upper left from Polaris, which is of similar brightness. It has at least one planet, Beta Ursae Minoris b, a gas giant with a mass 6.1 times that ...