Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like star. The Nobel-winning discovery, later published in the pages of Nature, ...
SANTA CRUZ — Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed as a “super-Jupiter” has substantial differences from our solar system’s ...
Oxygen on exoplanets can be the result of simple chemical processes rather than biological ones.
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has identified TOI-4616 b, an Earth-sized planet transiting a cool M4 dwarf star ...