Scientists have not discovered a single satellite of exoplanets

Scientists have not discovered a single satellite of exoplanets.

There are several exomoon candidates, but their existence has not yet been confirmed.

MOSCOW, May 25 - RIA Novosti. Scientists have no doubt that exoplanets, like the planets of the Solar System, have satellites, but so far the existence of not a single exomoon has been confirmed, Vladislava Ananyeva, a researcher at the Department of Planetary Physics at the Space Research Institute (SRI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told RIA Novosti.

“There are several candidates, but so far not a single satellite has been discovered. No one doubts that they exist, they should exist, but we just don’t see them,” Ananyeva said.

According to her, the situation with the discovery of exoplanet satellites is reminiscent of the discovery of exoplanets themselves in the 90s of the last century. Then scientists found, as it was believed, planets, and after clarifying the data, they found out that this was not so. After increasing the accuracy of observations, the first exoplanets were confirmed, and now the number of such known objects is more than six thousand.