Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning ... said in a statement. In short, not yet. An exoplanet known as K2-18b achieved a degree of fame in April when a team of astronomers claimed to ...

Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like ...

Much like the murky waters of the deep ocean, the unpredictable fluidity of Earth’s atmosphere can distort any light that ...

With all three missions on the go at the same ... will release their catalogue of exoplanet candidates discovered via a technique known as astrometry, which relates to the position and motion of stars ...

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Space scientists look back on three decades of exoplanet discoveries—from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...