When Will That Star Dim? Amateur Planet-Chasers Got You! - NASA Science

A planet swings in front of its star, dimming the starlight we see. Events like these, called transits, provide us with bounties of information about exoplanets–planets around stars other than the Sun.

NASA’s Webb Images Cold Exoplanet 12 Light-Years Away - NASA Science

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has directly imaged an exoplanet roughly 12 light-years from Earth. The planet, Epsilon Indi Ab, is one of the coldest exoplanets observed to date.

NASA’s Webb Investigates Eternal Sunrises, Sunsets on Distant World - NASA Science

Near-infrared spectral analysis of terminator confirms differences in morning and evening atmosphere Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have finally confirmed what models have previously predicted: An exoplanet has differences betwee…

Coming in Hot — NASA's Chandra Checks Habitability of Exoplanets - NASA

Astronomers are using these X-ray data to determine how habitable exoplanets may be based on whether they receive lethal radiation from the stars they orbit,

Webb Finds Plethora of Carbon Molecules Around Young Star - NASA Science

An international team of astronomers has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to study the disk of gas and dust around a young, very low-mass star. The results reveal the largest number of carbon-containing molecules seen to date in such a disk.

NASA Awards Advance Technologies for Future Habitable Worlds Mission - NASA

NASA announced Friday it selected three industry proposals to help develop technologies for future large space telescopes and plan for the agency’s Habitable

NASA Awards Advance Technologies for Future Habitable Worlds Mission - NASA

NASA announced Friday it selected three industry proposals to help develop technologies for future large space telescopes and plan for the agency’s Habitable

Discovery Alert: Spock’s Home Planet Goes ‘Poof’ - NASA Science

The discovery A planet thought to orbit the star 40 Eridani A – host to Mr. Spock’s fictional home planet, Vulcan, in the “Star Trek” universe – is really a kind of astronomical illusion caused by the pulses and jitters of the star itself, a new stud…

NASA’s TESS Finds Intriguing World Sized Between Earth, Venus - NASA Science

Using observations by NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) and many other facilities, two international teams of astronomers have discovered a planet between the sizes of Earth and Venus only 40 light-years away.

Discovery Alert: Mini-Neptune in Double Star System is a Planetary Puzzle - NASA Science

The Discovery A planet that could resemble a smaller version of our own Neptune orbits one of two Sun-like stars that also orbit each other.

NASA Tool Gets Ready to Image Faraway Planets - NASA

A technology demo on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help increase the variety of distant planets scientists can directly image.

Discovery Alert: An Earth-sized World and Its Ultra-cool Star - NASA Science

Our galaxy is a jewel box of red stars. More than 70% of the stars in the Milky Way are M dwarfs, also known as red dwarfs.

NASA’s Webb Hints at Possible Atmosphere Surrounding Rocky Exoplanet - NASA Science

Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have detected atmospheric gases surrounding 55 Cancri e, a hot rocky exoplanet 41 light-years from Earth.

Breaking the Scaling Limits: New Ultralow-noise Superconducting Camera for Exoplanet Searches - NASA Science

When imaging faint objects such as distant stars or exoplanets, capturing every last bit of light is crucial to get the most out of a scientific mission.

NASA’s Webb Maps Weather on Planet 280 Light-Years Away - NASA Science

An international team of researchers has successfully used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to map the weather on the hot gas-giant exoplanet WASP-43 b.

NASA Puts Next-Gen Exoplanet-Imaging Technology to the Test - NASA

A cutting-edge tool to view planets outside our solar system has passed two key tests ahead of its launch as part of the agency’s Roman Space Telescope by 2027.

Meet the Infrared Telescopes That Paved the Way for NASA’s Webb - NASA

The Webb telescope has opened a new window onto the universe, but it builds on missions going back 40 years, including Spitzer and the Infrared Astronomical

NASA Data Reveals Possible Reason Some Exoplanets Are Shrinking - NASA

A new study could explain the ‘missing’ exoplanets between super-Earths and sub-Neptunes.

Why NASA’s Roman Mission Will Study Milky Way’s Flickering Lights - NASA

Roman’s long-term sky monitoring, which will enable these results, represents a boon to what scientists call time-domain astronomy, which studies how the

Webb Detects Tiny Quartz Crystals in the Clouds of a Hot Gas Giant

Webb Detects Tiny Quartz Crystals in the Clouds of a Hot Gas Giant