NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered an extraordinary planet that's roughly the size of Earth but is only one-tenth of our planet's age, with half of its surface likely ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration shows the atmosphere of the Jupiter-sized exoplanet V1298 Tau b being stripped away transforming it into a ...

This exoplanet transit shows background stars that could be biasing calculations of the exoplanet's size. Credit: Nikolai Berman/UC Irvine New research suggests that scientists (and their computer ...

From the brightness variations of its host star, an exoplanet’s size and other properties can be determined. In order to avoid mistakes, the star’s magnetic field is decisive 700 light years away from ...

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