exoplanets

Scientists may have discovered the first evidence for tectonic activity on exoplanet

March 10, 2021 9:36 am

The LHS 3844b is an exoplanet that is tidally locked to its star which means that one side of it is permanently facing the star while the other faces the space.

On this exoplanet, the ocean is made of lava and it rains rocks from the skies

November 10, 2020 12:13 pm

Unlike Earth which has oceans and ice glaciers, the K2-141b has 100km deep magma-filled oceans and rock glaciers. To make matters even worse, it rains rocks on the planet as it has a rock cycle which is completely opposite to Earth's water cycle.

This bizarre exoplanet is the core of a gas giant like Jupiter that lost its gas

April 15, 2020 12:31 pm

The exoplanet TOI-849b that revolves around its star TOI-849 could be the remnant core of a gas giant.

'Mini Neptune', twice the size of Earth, could possibly support life

March 02, 2020 5:35 pm

Astronomers have found that an exoplanet twice as big as Earth has the habitable conditions.

NASA prepares HabEx mission to search for another Earth-like exoplanet

December 29, 2019 1:44 pm

NASA has prepared a mission to directly search for an Earth-like exoplanet using the Habitable Exoplanet Imaging Mission or HabEx space telescope.

Europe’s Cheops satellite will try to launch again

December 18, 2019 1:15 pm

The European Space Agency is continuing the search for new Earths this week with the launch of Cheops, a new telescope whose name stands for CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite.

Scientists discover water vapour in distant Earth-like exoplanet K2-18b

September 12, 2019 4:28 pm

Scientists have discovered water vapour on a little-known exoplanet known as K2-18b located 110 lightyears away. Given its larger mass, the surface gravity of K2-18b exoplanet is much higher than that of the Earth.

Three exoplanets discovered around neighbouring star

July 31, 2019 12:57 pm

The new star system, called TESS Object of Interest, or TOI-270, is exactly what the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, was designed to find, said researchers from the University of California, Riverside in the US.

Forbidden planet discovered in Neptunian Desert

May 31, 2019 2:14 pm

The exoplanet, described in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, has a mass of 20 Earth masses, a radius 20 per cent smaller than Neptune, and temperature of 1000 degrees Celsius.

Two elusive giant exoplanets discovered

May 28, 2019 2:54 pm

Scientists have discovered two Jupiter-sized exoplanets about 150 light years away from Earth which could reveal whether life is possible on the smaller planets in other solar systems.

NASA Announces Discovery Of Seven Earth-Size Planets That Could Hold Life

June 22, 2020 7:09 pm