A doctoral student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has found by far the youngest known exoplanet using the so-called transit method. The celestial body with the designation IRAS ...
The youngest exoplanets are actually still protected from certain detection methods by dust disks. In a "strange" case, this is now different. A doctoral student at the University of North ...
From 520 light-years away, astronomers have caught a glimpse of a nascent massive world still embedded within its star’s ...
An international group of researchers including University of Arizona astronomers, using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, ...
“This result is really important for the next decade of exoplanet research, because eyes are shifting toward this population of stars,” said astronomy doctoral student Sheila Sagear at the ...