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Researchers are studying eccentric warm Jupiters, giant exoplanets that follow odd, elongated orbits unlike anything in our solar system.
Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and ...
The first picture of a planet outside our solar system may actually depict a swirl of space dust, a new study suggests.
The Roman Space Telescope's next generation coronagraph instrument will help deliver amazing views of exoplanets. Learn how ...
A study using the Very Large Array radio telescope may have discovered a magnetic field on exoplanet YZ Ceti b. Magnetic ...
Is anybody out there? Probably. Most stars have planets; we've discovered more than 6,000 exoplanets thus far, and the most ...
The idea was that as an alien civilization advances, its technology becomes too sophisticated for us to detect. We could ...
A new theory from a scientist working with NASA, raises a surprising question about extraterrestrial life and why they might ...
The idea is based on the Fermi Paradox, which questions why we haven't yet detected signs of intelligent extraterrestrial ...
Astronomers have discovered an alien world that defies every planetary rule with its massive size, low density, and tilted ...
A low-density, puffy planet orbiting relatively far from a young star in a nearly perpendicular orbit. What's going on?