How Do Astronomers Find Planets in Other Solar Systems?

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.
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NASA's Webb telescope glimpses coldest exoplanet yet found: What to know about gas giant

"Abnormal, chaotic and strange" are just a few adjectives astronomers are using to describe a perplexing planetary system 60 light-years from Earth. And for one of the two exoplanets orbiting the ...
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Astronomers have found more than 6,000 exoplanets. Billions more could be out there

Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system. In 1995, a gas giant named 51 Pegasi b, which orbits a star similar to Earth's sun, etched its name in history as the first exoplanet ever ...

Why most exoplanets are magma worlds

In astronomy, there is a concept called "degeneracy." It has nothing to do with delinquent people, but instead is used to ...

"Wet lava ball" exoplanet may have an atmosphere, new evidence shows

A rocky exoplanet outside the Earth's solar system may have an atmosphere, according to new evidence gathered by NASA ...
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NASA’s Webb spots bizarre carbon-rich exoplanet orbiting a rapidly spinning pulsar

Webb spots a bizarre exoplanet with a carbon-rich atmosphere orbiting a pulsar, defying theories of how planets form.
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Astronomers Have Found 6,000 Exoplanets—but This Could Be the First Known Exomoon

After decades of searching, astronomers may have finally stumbled upon the first moon known to exist beyond our solar system—and it's an absolute giant. Reading time 3 minutes In September, NASA ...