Astronomers study planetary transits and atmospheric signals using interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, drawing on transit spectroscopy principles and recent observational constraints discussed by Avi Loeb.
On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring ...
To date, over 5,500 exoplanets — planets that orbit stars other than the sun — have been discovered, and a large portion of those alien worlds have been observed via something called "the transit ...
NASA's TESS satellite identifies thousands of exoplanet candidates using the transit method, yet most detections are initial and necessitate extensive, resource-intensive follow-up observations for ...
Universe Today reports on a new telescope proposal that could help astronomers detect Earth-sized exomoons, explaining current limits, future technology, and why moons around distant planets matter ...
The measured transit spectrum (top) and eclipse spectrum (bottom) of WASP-80 b from NIRCam’s slitless spectroscopy mode on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. In both spectra, there is clear evidence ...