NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has identified TOI-4616 b, an Earth-sized planet transiting a cool M4 dwarf star in the solar neighborhood. The discovery, detailed in a new preprint, adds ...

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has unveiled TOI-4616 b, an Earth-sized planet orbiting a nearby M-dwarf star. Published in a March study on the preprint server arXiv, the findings ...

Researchers report the discovery of a Saturn-sized exoplanet orbiting two M-dwarf stars, which are smaller and cooler than ...

Astronomers have discovered an additional 100 new worlds in data collected by NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS, ...

The largest survey of exoplanets using an observatory atop Mauna Kea on the Big Island confirms a long-predicted relationship ...

Chloe Lawlor, 25, is a PhD student from the University of Galway's Centre for Astronomy and the Ryan Institute.

As the number of exoplanet detections has breached 6,000 and continues to grow, scientists are finding a wide variety of ...

The number 45 matters less than what it represents: the shift from open-ended discovery to structured search, and from chance ...

Astronomers have spotted two planets forming around a distant infant star, offering a time capsule into see what the solar ...

British and Argentine astronomers have developed a neural network capable of identifying more than a hundred previously ...

The film, which opened in theaters Thursday, is grounded in real nearby star systems and exoplanet science, with a dose of ...