When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration of the TESS exoplanet hunter detecting close-in planets around a distant star. | Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) Astronomers have discovered over 100 new worlds beyond the solar system hiding in data collected by NASA’s…
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) and VLT Interferometer (VLTI) in Chile, astronomers have directly observed two gas giants emerging from the planet-forming disk around a star known as WISPIT 2, offering one of the clearest views yet of how a planetary system may form. The arrangement, marked by gaps and rings in the surrounding…
Using data from ESA’s Gaia mission and the NASA Exoplanet Archive, astronomers at Cornell University have identified 45 rocky exoplanets in the empirical habitable zone and 24 worlds in the narrower 3D habitable zone, offering scientists a focused guide in the search for extraterrestrial life. An artist’s impression of a planetary system around a slightly…
