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A Tiny Telescope is Revealing “Hot Jupiter” Secrets

A recent study presented this week at the 2023 meeting of the American Geophysical Union discusses observations of “hot...

Exomoons Defy Discovery

For a long time, we wondered if other stars hosted planets like the Sun does. Finally, in the...

ESA’s Ariel Mission is Approved to Begin Construction

We’re about to learn a lot more about exoplanets. The ESA has just approved the construction of its...

Astronomers spot rare star system with six planets in geometric formation

Astronomers have discovered a rare star system in which six planets orbit around one star in an elaborate geometrical...

A Planetary System With Six Sub-Neptunes Locked in Perfect Resonance

A team of researchers led by University of Chicago astronomer Rafael Luque analyzed data acquired by both NASA’s Transiting...

It Doesn’t Take Much to Get Tilted Planets

Chinese and Indian astronomers were the first to measure Earth’s axial tilt accurately, and they did it about 3,000...

Where are All the Double Planets?

A recent study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society examines formation mechanisms for how binary...

White Dwarfs Could Support Life. So Where are All Their Planets?

Astronomers have found plenty of white dwarf stars surrounded by debris disks. Those disks are the remains of...

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