Tootfinder

XUE - the CO2-rich terrestrial planet-forming region of an externally irradiated Herbig disk: #planet formation models: https://www.su.se/english/news/unusual-carbon-dioxide-rich-disk-detected-around-young-star-challenges-planet-formation-models-1.841751

Giant Outer Transiting Exoplanet Mass (GOT 'EM) Survey - Confirmation of a Long-period Giant #Planet Discovered with a Single TESS Transit: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/add88b -> UNM astronomers confirm new gas giant exoplanet with help from citizen scientists worldwide: https://news.unm.edu/news/unm-astronomers-confirm-new-gas-giant-exoplanet-with-help-from-citizen-scientists-worldwide -> NASA exoplanet-hunting spacecraft and citizen scientists discover a cool new alien world: https://www.space.com/astronomy/exoplanets/nasa-exoplanet-hunting-spacecraft-and-citizen-scientists-discover-a-cool-new-alien-world

Evidence for a sub-Jovian planet in the young TWA 7 #disk : #Planet Imaged by NASA #Webb Is Lightest Ever Seen: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2025/news-2025-126 and https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_finds_evidence_of_a_lightweight_planet_around_TWA_7

A transiting giant planet in orbit around a 0.2-solar-mass host star: #planet orbiting tiny star challenges theories on planet formation: https://warwick.ac.uk/news/pressreleases/discovery_of_giant_planet_orbiting_tiny_star_challenges_theories_on_planet_formation and https://www.news.uliege.be/cms/c_20434166/en/a-giant-planet-around-a-tiny-star-a-discovery-that-challenges-planet-formation-theories

A Far-Infrared Search for Planet Nine Using AKARI All-Sky Survey: #PlanetNine candidates whose positions and flux are within the theoretical prediction ranges. These candidates warrant further investigation through follow-up observations to confirm the existence and properties of Planet Nine."

Unveiling a protoplanet candidate embedded in the HD 135344B disk with VLT/ERIS / VLT/ERIS Observations of the V960 Mon System - a Dust-embedded Substellar Object Formed by Gravitational Instability? #planet sculpting the dust around it: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2513/

Orbital Decay of the Ultra-hot Jupiter TOI-2109b - Tidal Constraints and Transit-timing Analysis: #planet’s orbital decay to understand how stars dissipate energy.

A Candidate Giant Planet Imaged in the Habitable Zone of alpha Cen A - Observations, Orbital and Physical Properties, and Exozodi Upper Limits / Binary Star Modeling, Planet and Exozodi Search, and Sensitivity Analysis: #Planet Around Closest Solar Twin: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2025/news-2025-135 & https://esawebb.org/news/weic2515/

Close-in planet induces flares on its host star / Searching for planet-induced radio signal from the young close-in planet host star HIP 67522: #planets can trigger own doom, suspect Cheops and TESS: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Cheops/Clingy_planets_can_trigger_own_doom_suspect_Cheops_and_TESS