How Do Astronomers Find Planets in Other Solar Systems?

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe observes solar wind reversing direction

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe observed solar wind reversing direction, capturing inflows and coronal material returning to the Sun, providing new insights into solar magnetic field dynamics.

"Wet lava ball" exoplanet may have an atmosphere, new evidence shows

A rocky exoplanet outside the Earth's solar system may have an atmosphere, according to new evidence gathered by NASA ...

Parker Solar Probe spies solar wind 'U-turn'

Images captured by NASA's Parker Solar Probe as the spacecraft made its record-breaking closest approach to the sun in ...

Astronomers create first map of the sun's outer boundary

Astronomers have produced the first continuous, two-dimensional maps of the outer edge of the sun's atmosphere, a shifting, ...
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Why are there rocky planets and gas giants? The solar system's blueprint

Our solar system didn't form by accident. This video explains the blueprint that created rocky worlds like Earth and Mars ...
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James Webb Space Telescope finds strongest evidence yet for atmosphere around rocky exoplanet: 'It's really like a wet lava ball'

This is the strongest evidence yet of a rocky planet beyond our solar system with an atmosphere. Astronomers using the James ...