The Mauve telescope, developed by London-headquartered start-up Blue Skies Space, is the size of a small suitcase and carries ...

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PoET and ESPRESSO telescopes are new tools that will eliminate stellar noise and detect Earth-like planets around Sun-like ...

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Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit ...

Astronomers have discovered an alien world that defies every planetary rule with its massive size, low density, and tilted ...

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Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...

ESO's Very Large Telescope has observed a rogue planet and revealed that it is eating up gas and dust from its surroundings at a rate of 6 billion tons a second.

Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly "pristine" red giant with the lowest concentration of heavy elements ever seen in ...

When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a faint object orbiting a distant star system, they weren’t expecting to find one of the universe’s strangest chemical ...