Neowin News Feed for: Exoplanets

NASA spotted "heck" of a new planet unlike any other defying all explanations

Sayan Sen — Sat, 23 May 2026 10:30:01 +0000

NASA discovered a bizarre new planet unlike anything previously observed, astonishing scientists and defying existing theories about planetary formation completely. Read more...

JWST helps find how one of the most extreme gas worlds is built on tiny pebbles

Sayan Sen — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 22:56:02 +0000

The James Webb Space Telescope has helped uncover one of the extreme planets out there that was built up of tiny pebbles. Read more...

EVE Online crowdsources the search for distant planets using Kepler space telescope

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 20:38:01 +0000

EVE Online players will soon get the chance to help scientists find real-life exoplanets thanks to CCP Games' partnership with the University of Reykjavik and the University of Geneva. Read more...

This week in science: anyone can help astronomers and more search for dark matter

Gabriel Nunes — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 01:54:01 +0000

Scientists have released huge amounts of data to the public this week to obtain help in the difficult task of analysis. Meanwhile, the search for dark matter is at full speed around the globe. Read more...