One of the primary goals of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is to detect atmospheres around exoplanets, to try to suss ...

TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized world in the system’s habitable zone, is drawing scientific attention as researchers hunt for ...

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

In a discovery that's fit for a movie, Northwestern University astronomers have directly imaged a Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns. While obtaining an image of a planet beyond our solar ...

The Jupiter-size planet was discovered by NASA's James WebbSpace Telescope (JWST) and is so strange that it challenges ...

Astronomers have discovered a lemon-shaped planet that orbits a tiny star, but that's not the only weird thing about it. Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope discovered the Jupiter-size ...

Two rare cosmic collisions around the young star Fomalhaut were caught by space telescopes, offering new clues about how planets form.

Astronomers have discovered a bizarre carbon-rich planet orbiting a neutron star, PSR J2322-2650b, with soot clouds and ...

TOI-561 b is about 1.4 times the size of Earth and completes one orbit around its star in less than 11 hours, placing it in ...

Astronomers have repeatedly observed events near a distant star that mirror processes from the early solar system’s ...

A massive collision between two asteroid-sized bodies around a nearby star offers a rare look at the violent process of ...

SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation. These bright arcs and faint clouds reveal where tiny planet-building ...