The European Space Agency (ESA) has a number of missions ongoing to discover and study exoplanets, which are planets outside of our solar system. One of those missions, Cheops (CHaracterising ...

image: This infographic reveals the details of the Nu2 Lupi planetary system, which was recently explored by ESA's exoplanet watcher Cheops (CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite). This bright, Sun-like ...

Using the European Space Agency’s Characterizing Exoplanets Satellite (CHEOPS) telescope, a team of astronomers has discovered an exoplanet that may be triggering its host star to release massive ...

In early November 2017, Nature published the results of the Scan Pyramids project, led by Mehdi Tayoubi (Hip Institute, Paris) and Kunihiro Morishima (University of Nagoya, Japan): there is a "huge ...

CHEOPS keeps its promise: Observations with the space telescope reveal details of the exoplanet WASP-189b - one of the most extreme planets known. Eight months after the space telescope CHEOPS started ...

Photobombs—when something or someone unexpectedly enters a camera's field of sight during the taking of a photograph—happen every day. Sometimes it is a friend, other times a stranger or perhaps a ...

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While studying two exoplanets in a bright nearby star system, the CHEOPS satellite has unexpectedly spotted the system's third known planet crossing the face of the star. This transit reveals exciting ...