That would make it thousands of times more massive than any moon orbiting a solar system plane  — so massive it could make ...

A new study published as a pre-peer-reviewed paper on arXiv and accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics suggests ...

Fellow exomoon hunter René Heller of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen, Germany, is less skeptical on that front. He argues that a less extreme inward migration probably ...

A new analysis of a peculiar metallic cloud surrounding the exoplanet WASP-49 b provides further evidence that it may have been birthed by a volcanic satellite, which may become the first officially ...

Team "pro-exomoon" is back to defend the discovery of the first and only exomoons potentially seen by humanity. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

For the first time, astronomers have discovered what could be an exomoon, a moon outside our solar system. The so-called exomoon, which is estimated to be the size of Neptune, was found in orbit ...

After decades of searching, astronomers might finally be on the verge of discovering thefirst confirmed exomoon, a natural satellite orbiting a distant exoplanet. If the findings hold up, it could be ...

So far, humanity has yet to find its first "exomoon"—a moon orbiting a planet outside of the solar system. But that hasn't been for lack of trying. According to a new paper by Thomas Winterhalder of ...

Scientists have spotted a few thousand exoplanets, or planets orbiting stars other than our sun. Exomoons are another story. There have been some potential exomoons, but nothing definitive. Now, a ...

Astronomers have so far identified over 1,800 exoplanets orbiting other stars. And the Kepler space telescope (Opens in a new window)has identified several thousand more possibilities, some of which ...