Monday, January 5, 2026

The Ambitious Plan to Spot Habitable Moons Around Giant Planets

Artist's concept of an exomoon around exoplanet Kepler-1625b. Since debunked, this was originally thought to be one of the first exomoon discoveries. Credit - ESA / Hubble

arXiv:2512.15858v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite numerous search campaigns based on a diverse set of observational techniques, exomoons - prospective satellites of extrasolar planets - remain an elusive and hard-to-pin-down class of objects. Yet, the case for intensifying this search is compelling: as in the Solar System, moons can act as proxies for studying planet formation and evolution, provide direct clues as to the migration history of the planetary hosts and, in favourable cases...



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