For the first time, NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission has identified a planet orbiting a distant star thanks to ripples in space-time. Unlike the star-hugging transiting planets TESS regularly reveals, the newfound world is a super-Jupiter orbiting far from its host star. “When TESS launched, no one expected it to ever be capable […]
Astronomers have discovered two “super-puff” exoplanets orbiting the same star that have densities lower than cotton candy, making them the lightest worlds ever seen.
NASA has revealed two new “super-puff” planets, giant worlds so light that their density is comparable to cotton candy. Scientists calculate that these Jupiter-sized planets are the “puffiest” worlds ever found.
A new look at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy by Euclid, an ESA (European Space Agency) mission with NASA contributions, overlaps with a region scientists will observe with NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, launching later this summer. This sneak peek gives astronomers a major jumpstart on a core Roman survey, helping scientists […]
“This discovery provides a crucial insight into how planets form even around massive, eccentric objects.”
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered that one of the coldest exoplanets ever discovered, the so-called Pink Planet, harbors a salty surprise.
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Who ordered the roasted exoplanet? Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope found a world that really puts the “hot” in “Hot Jupiter.”
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“With its unprecedented observational quality, JWST gives us the most detailed glimpses into distant planets to date.”
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NASA’s proposed EVE mission would study young exoplanets to help explain why the galaxy has so few worlds sitting between super-Earths and sub-Neptunes.
“We were totally amazed when we noticed this mass and size range of planet formation.”