Astronomers believe the peculiar composition of the Neptune-sized planet TOI-1853b is the result of a giant planetary clash.
Heavy elements dominate the...
Astronomers report the discovery and validation of two long-period giant exoplanets orbiting the K-dwarf star TOI-4600, first detected using observations...
Kepler-16b, a rare exoplanet that orbits around two stars, has been detected using the SOPHIE spectrograph at the 1.93-m telescope of the Observatoire...
Astronomers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have discovered four exoplanets orbiting TOI-2076 and TOI-1807, a pair of related...
Astronomers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite have discovered a sub-Neptune exoplanet orbiting TOI-220, a bright and old K-type dwarf...
Five sub-Neptunes and one super-Earth exoplanet orbit a moderately bright K-type star called K2-138.
An artist’s impression of the six-planet system...
A team of geobiologists and astronomers from the United States and Germany has identified 24 extrasolar planets that may have conditions more suitable...
Astronomers have discovered two planets orbiting a bright dwarf star in the binary stellar system Gliese 414.
An artist’s impression of the Gliese 414...
K-type dwarf stars are dimmer than the Sun but brighter than the faintest stars. These stars live a very long time — 17 billion to 70 billion years,...