Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope are unraveling the mysteries of TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized exoplanet 40 ...
Astronomers around the world have confirmed over 6,000 exoplanets, a milestone reached in September 2025. Billions more are ...
JWST data hints that Trappist-1e may have an atmosphere. More transits will test if this world could support liquid water.
York University planetary scientist Dr. Charles-Édouard Boukaré discusses molten rocky exoplanets: rocky planets so close to ...
The planet TRAPPIST-1e lies in its star’s Goldilocks zone, where water remains liquid – and an analysis suggests it might ...
For decades, Uranus baffled scientists because it seemed to have no internal heat. Now, new computer modeling shows the ...
This planet, located about 700 light-years from Earth, is known for its remarkably short orbital period and extreme surface temperature. It orbits closely around its star, with an orbital radius only ...
The indeterminate nature of the team's results means that JWST is far from finished with TRAPPIST-1e. The researchers hope to perform a deeper search for the planet's atmosphere, with each subsequent ...
To our surprise, a similar phenomenon of water vapor has also been observed on exoplanets far in the depths of the universe. K2-18b is an exoplanet located about 110 light-years from Earth. It is ...
In May 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were testing how radio waves bounced off balloon satellites developed by Bell ...
Florida Tech astrophysicist Howard Chen is offering new insights to help aid NASA's search for life beyond Earth. His latest theoretical work investigates the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system, one of the ...