At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...
Astronomers study planetary transits and atmospheric signals using interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, drawing on transit spectroscopy principles and recent observational constraints discussed by Avi Loeb.
On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring ...
To date, over 5,500 exoplanets — planets that orbit stars other than the sun — have been discovered, and a large portion of those alien worlds have been observed via something called "the transit ...
The transit-method of exoplanet-detection is pretty straightforward, conceptually: First you find a distant star. If the light from it dims, it could be due to a planet in its orbit that has passed ...
Universe Today reports on a new telescope proposal that could help astronomers detect Earth-sized exomoons, explaining current limits, future technology, and why moons around distant planets matter ...