ESA’s mission Plato, PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars, will use its 26 cameras to study terrestrial exoplanets in orbits up to the habitable zone of Sun-like stars. The mission will ...

Dr Andrew Winter has been awarded £1.8 million grant from the Royal Society’s University Research Fellowship (URF) programme.

If it’s real, some may question whether something with a mass about three times Pluto’s counts as a planet at all.

Why would scientists want blurry photos of stars? The answer lies in ESA’s CHEOPS telescope, which specializes in studying exoplanets by focusing on light variations. Join us to explore how this ...

Worlds with liquid water could have formed just 200 million years after the big bang from the remains of the earliest ...

It is known that the M1 alone will consist of 798 glass-ceramic hexagonal segments, each of which is about 5 centimeters ...

Venus" exoplanet 47 light-years away, with a thick atmosphere, challenging previous planetary classifications.

Discover the fastest jet-stream winds on exoplanet WASP-127b, reaching 33,000 km per hour, driven by intense stellar ...

When scientists first found Enaiposha, they thought it was a mini-Neptune, a small gas planet with an icy core.

WASP-127b boasts wind speeds of 33,000 km/h—faster than anything we've seen before! This gas giant's bizarre atmosphere ...

A new study by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton highlights the challenges planets ...

Planets with suns like Wolf 359 are subject to huge blasts of radiation that raise questions about their long-term ...