Radial velocity (RV) surveys have detected hundreds of exoplanets through their gravitational interactions with their host stars. Some will be transiting, but most lack sufficient follow-up ...

With an assist from the NEID spectrograph, a team of astronomers have confirmed the existence of exoplanet Gaia-4b—one of the most massive planets known to orbit a low-mass star. Gaia-4b is also the ...

Sub-Neptune planets that dance in time with the rest of their planetary systems are less dense than those that don't, planetary scientists have found. Depending on the techniques used for these ...

Michael Endl is on a mission: As a research scientist with the University of Texas at Austin, he hopes the sum of his astronomy career will be a chart characterizing exoplanets, like you might find on ...

Astronomers using the GRAVITY instrument at the VLT telescopes in Chile have now obtained the first direct confirmation of an exoplanet discovered by radial velocity. As the planet “Beta Pictoris c” ...

The discovery of exoplanets, particularly "hot Jupiters" orbiting close to their stars, challenged existing models of planetary system formation, revealing that planetary migration within ...

The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for “contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos”. Half the prize went to cosmologist Jim Peebles, ...

A team of astronomers, including a researcher from Ohio State, located a planet orbiting two stars that resembles the planet Tatooine from the movie series “Star Wars.” Using a technique known as the ...

Only 11.4 light-years away, two exoplanets have been detected around a neighboring star. One of them, Gl725Bc, is located in the habitable zone and is now the second closest potentially ...

Astronomers have discovered one of the lightest planets ever found and it's orbiting the star right next door to our own, just over four light-years away from Earth. Confirmation of Proxima d is ...

Even though the ingredients for life have been confirmed to be practically everywhere we look, the only world where we've definitively confirmed its existence is Earth. Exoplanet science has exploded ...