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The six planets of the HD110067 system together create a fascinating geometric pattern due to their chain of resonance.© CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 / Thibaut Roger / NCCR Planets Astronomers have discovered six sub-Neptune exoplanets dancing in unison around the same distant star, solving a major mystery in the process. The ancient, pristine system opens a
View larger. | Artist's concept of what the HD 26965 b – o is Vulcan – might have seemed, if it really existed. A new study shows that the possible exoplanet It's probably just an astronomical illusion. Image via POT/ JPL-Caltech. HD 26965 b, also nicknamed Vulcan after the famous planet in Star TrekIt was
Artist's illustration of a rocky planet with a reasonable atmosphere orbiting a red dwarf star.NASA / JPL-Caltech / R. Hurt (Caltech-IPAC) In searching for planets around other stars, astronomers often look for worlds that most closely resemble our own. The discovery of Gliese 12b, the closest transiting, temperate, Earth-sized planet found to date, promises possibilities
The new NASA exoplanet The catalog contains 126 newly discovered worlds of a wide variety. It will help astronomers learn more about how exoplanets form and evolve. The catalog will also help them compare exoplanets with planets in our own solar system. Image via WM Keck Observatory/ Adam Makarenko/ University of California, Riverside. A new
The ethereal glow of the northern lights, a highly sought-after sight on Earth, has now been found on a giant world many times the mass of Jupiter, astronomers announced at this week's meeting of the American Astronomical Society in New Orleans. This artist's concept depicts the brown dwarf W1935, which is located 47 light years
GJ 9827d, depicted in this artist's concept as the blue world at the top, is a candidate “water world” 100 light years from Earth. It is close enough to its star that the “water” in this case is vapor rather than oceans.NASA/ Hubblesite/ ESA/ Leah Hustak (STScI)/ Ralf Crawford (STScI) New Hubble Space Telescope observations
Illustration of a cloudy exoplanet and debris disk orbiting a white dwarf star. NASA/JPL-Caltech JWST has directly imaged what appear to be two giant exoplanets orbiting white dwarf stars. This discovery has important implications for the fate of our solar system's giant planets as the Sun evolves into a red giant and eventually becomes a
An illustration of an exoplanet engulfed by its home star. Planet 8 Ursae Minoris b has somehow escaped this fate. Gemini International Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / M. Garlick / M. Zamani; CC BY 4.0 New research may have reignited the mystery of 8 Ursae Minoris b, a seemingly doomed exoplanet that
Return to article list This Neptune-like world orbits a Sun-like star in a binary system, where conditions are right for liquid water to remain on its surface. Artist's illustration of the exoplanet TOI 4633 c and its binary star system. Credit: Ed Bell for the Simons Foundation A team of professional and citizen scientists has
Artistic illustration of a lava world. ESO / L. Calçada An international team of astronomers has just found signs of an extreme exoplanet that, if it exists, is packed with so many active volcanoes that its temperature rivals that of some stars. TOI-6713.01 appears to be about the size of Earth, only 30% larger than
