An exomoon or extrasolar moon is a natural satellite that orbits an exoplanet or other non-stellar extrasolar body. [2] Exomoons are difficult to detect and confirm using current techniques, [3] and to date there have been no confirmed exomoon detections. [4] .

Oct 14, 2024 · We’ve got a cosmic mystery on our hands. No one’s ever confirmed the existence of an ‘exomoon,’ which is a moon outside our solar system. However, a new NASA-led study …

Apr 13, 2022 · An international team of astronomers confirms 60 new exoplanets, or planets orbiting other stars; a separate study finds tentative evidence of an “exomoon.”

Oct 3, 2018 · NASA’s Hubble and Kepler space telescopes have uncovered what could be the first exomoon. Based upon their findings, the team spent 40 hours making observations with Hubble to study the planet intensively – also using the transit method – obtaining more precise data on the dips of light.

As of 2025, there have been no positive confirmations of satellites of extra-solar planets (exomoons); however, some evidence in favour of their existence has been produced. 2012 — It has been surmised that J1407b, a possibly planetary-mass …

Jan 30, 2024 · Scientists doubt proposed detection of the 1st exomoons. These two moons were like nothing found in the solar system. They both exhibited sizes greater than Earth's, for …

Jul 17, 2022 · Exomoons are moons that orbit exoplanets, planets that orbit stars other than the sun. To date, no exomoons have been confirmed, yet that will likely change.

Jul 28, 2017 · The first evidence for an exomoon — a moon orbiting a planet orbiting a distant star — may have been spotted in data from the Kepler space telescope.

Oct 25, 2024 · Currently, there are no confirmed exomoons, only a list of candidates, some of which should be in habitable zones if they're real. Kipping and his team have succeeded in getting some JWST...

Oct 4, 2018 · The so-called exomoon, which is estimated to be the size of Neptune, was found in orbit around a gigantic gas planet 8,000 light-years from Earth.