exoplanet

There was a lot of science news from across many fields this week, from biology and wildlife management to NASA's plans for the International Space Station…

An international team including researchers from the University of Bern and the University of Geneva as well as the National Centre of Competence in Research…

Of the over 4,000 exoplanets discovered so far, one of the strangest has to be WASP-189b. This ultra-hot Jupiter orbits so close to its star that its…

NASA’s planet-hunting satellite TESS, or the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, has passed an impressive milestone, having identified 5,000…

Scientists have discovered more than 10,000 exoplanets, those that lay quietly beyond our solar system, but they have not been able to locate a moon orbiting…

Volunteers interested in astronomy and curious about celestial objects have helped NASA find a super giant planet outside our solar system. This exoplanet is…

Exoplanets come in many sizes, and sometimes they also come in unusual shapes. The European Space Agency’s CHEOPS exoplanet-hunting telescope has…

With the help of the CHEOPS space telescope, an international team including researchers from the Universities of Bern and Geneva as well as the National…

Planets are typically round bodies in space that orbit stars, at least most of the time anyway: We've just gotten our first look at an exoplanet that has…

Astronomers have found a planet in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star, but its orbit is so elongated that it would have wildly variable temperatures…