Worlds more habitable than Earth?(nytimes.com)
76 points by cainxinth | 150 comments
New York Times science article about planets that might be more habitable than Earth; the capture shows a bot-block page instead of the article.
#exoplanets on Hacker News
10 stories tagged exoplanets, newest first.
I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it(reddit.com)
231 points by pyduan | 113 comments
Reddit post in r/ClaudeAI where a user claims to have found a previously unknown planet using Claude Code; the page shown is a Reddit network-security block.
Where Is the Planet(whereistheplanet.com)
26 points by andsoitis | 3 comments
A web tool that predicts the sky locations of directly-imaged exoplanets and brown dwarf companions, built by Jason Wang, Matas Kulikauskas, and Sarah Blunt.
A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting(bsky.app)
387 points by mariuz | 79 comments
Bluesky post by Paul Byrne sharing a 12-year sequence of telescope images showing four massive exoplanets orbiting a star 133 light-years away.
First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star(bbc.com)
506 points by neversaydie | 292 comments
BBC News article by Pallab Ghosh reporting the first detection of an atmosphere on an Earth-like planet in the habitable zone of a distant star.
JWST reveals its first direct image discovery of an exoplanet(smithsonianmag.com)
319 points by divbzero | 138 comments
Smithsonian magazine article on the James Webb Space Telescope's first exoplanet discovery via direct imaging, made by blocking the host star's glare.
“Most promising signs yet” of alien life on a planet beyond our Solar System(skyatnightmagazine.com)
338 points by fuidani | 265 comments
BBC Sky at Night Magazine news article on astronomers detecting possible biosignature dimethyl sulfide on exoplanet K2-18b, called the most promising signs yet of alien life.
IAC confirms existence of a Super-earth in the habitable zone of a Sun-like Star(iac.es)
407 points by ohjeez | 265 comments
Press release from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias announcing confirmation of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star.
'Mathematically perfect' star system being investigated for potential alien tech(space.com)
383 points by pixelesque | 313 comments
Space.com news article about a star system with mathematically resonant exoplanet orbits being searched for signs of alien technology.
James Webb Space Telescope reveals Fomalhaut's disk in detail(skyandtelescope.org)
372 points by gmays | 157 comments
Sky & Telescope news article on JWST imaging Fomalhaut's debris disk in unprecedented detail, published May 8, 2023.