While most planets that we are familiar with stick relatively close to their host star in a predictable orbit, some planets ...
Exoplanets come up a lot these days, usually in headlines about distant stars, strange atmospheres, or the possibility of ...
Gravitational microlensing is a transient but powerful phenomenon that occurs when a foreground mass – such as a star or a planetary system – temporarily magnifies the light from a more distant ...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered PSR J2322-2650b, a bizarre lemon-shaped exoplanet with a carbon-rich ...
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August 14, 2025, Mountain View, CA -- The SETI Institute awarded the Davie Postdoctoral Fellowship for AI/ML-driven exoplanet discovery to Isabel Angelo. Machine learning is changing the way we search ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have investigated a new "super-Jupiter" planet that is one of the coldest worlds ever seen outside the solar system. The extrasolar planet or ...
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