The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...

A 17-year-old intern at NASA discovered a new planet on his third day on the job. Wolf Cukier, then a junior in high school, was interning at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland when he ...

The planet, called TOI 1338b, is around 6.9 times larger than Earth, or between the sizes of Neptune and Saturn. It lies in a system 1,300 light-years away in the constellation Pictor.

Scientists have been working on ways to find new worlds far from Earth, and this strange method theorized decades ago has ...

New planets discovered orbiting a star 11 light-years away. June 25, 2020. A rendering of the planetary system orbiting the star Gliese 887, which scientists identified in a paper on Thursday.

Published March 2, 2020, 10:37 a.m. ET. Finding new planets lurking in space isn’t as hard as it used to be, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a challenge.

There could be life out there—way, way out there. Last Wednesday, NASA announced that its James Webb Space Telescope had discovered “compelling evidence” of a planet that is potentially habitable. The ...

Published Jan. 8, 2020. Updated Jan. 8, 2020, 9:59 p.m. ET. ... York suburbs needed just three days at a NASA internship to pull off something out of this world — discover a brand new planet.

NASA Intern Discovers New Planet NPR's Scott Simon talks with Wolf Cukier, a high school senior from Scarsdale, ... January 11, 2020 7:48 AM ET. Heard on Weekend Edition Saturday.

So far, TOI 1338 b is the only known planet in the system. While NASA’s Kepler and K2 missions have previously discovered 12 circumbinary planets, many more of them are expected to be discovered ...

More information: David J Armstrong et al. Exoplanet Validation with Machine Learning: 50 new validated Kepler planets, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2020). DOI: 10.1093/mnras ...

A teenager discovered a new planet on the third day of his NASA internship January 10, 2020 More than 5 years ago Astronomers working with NASA’s TESS satellite announced the discovery of a ...