Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

Scientists have discovered over 6,000 planets that orbit stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets. More than half of ...

A sizzling exoplanet caught by the James Webb Space Telescope is shedding its atmosphere and leaving behind two gigantic helium tails.

Watch how JW Telescope detects temperature on Trappist 1 b. Credit: Space.com | animation courtesy: ESO/L. Calçada / Space ...

That would make it thousands of times more massive than any moon orbiting a solar system plane  — so massive it could make ...

A new device uses quantum optics to filter out starlight in real time — bringing scientists closer to directly observing Earth-like worlds. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

How can astronomers develop better methods for blocking the intense starlight of an exoplanetary system and reveal the exoplanets hiding underneath the glare? This is what a recent study published in ...

Stronger links between researchers who work on Earth’s and other planets’ atmospheres, and between the experimental, modelling and observational communities, will help to interpret the astronomical ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured evidence of a planet beyond the solar system for the first time since its launch in 2021. The exoplanet, a planet beyond our solar system, has been ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected clouds made of silicates, similar to sand here on Earth, as well as water, ...