The hunt for worlds beyond our solar system has shifted from counting planets to confronting extremes that strain basic ...

Astronomers from the University of Geneva, working with colleagues in Canada and the United States, have captured the ...

On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring ...

Webb telescope discovered a bizarre exoplanet with carbon atmosphere, no hydrogen, orbiting a super-dense spinning star.

Surprised astronomers just discovered a world that blurs the line between planet and stellar remnant, hiding in a system ...

What is the official process of planetary formation and evolution and is this process uniform for all planetary bodies throughout the universe? This is what a recent study published in The ...

October 23, 2023, Mountain View, CA — In a new study published in the Astronomical Journal, researchers used the known population of exoplanets and extrapolated to the much larger, unknown population ...

This image shows the exoplanet HIP 65426 b in different bands of infrared light, as seen from the James Webb Space Telescope: purple shows the NIRCam instrument’s view at 3.00 micrometers, blue shows ...

One of the main questions in exoplanet science concerns M dwarfs (red dwarfs) and the habitability of exoplanets that orbit ...

March 20, 2024, Mountain View, CA -- In a project aimed at democratizing science and fostering educational enrichment, a group of high school students from the Galaxy Explorer program at the Chabot ...

Hazy atmospheres might implicate our ability to identify water on other worlds. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. One of the ...

"We detected another planet even closer to the star that interacts strongly with its big neighbor, causing their orbits to wobble in ways we've never seen before." When you purchase through links on ...