Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to ...

Recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggests that a planet orbiting a small, red star 35 light years away ...

A planetary system anchored by a dead white dwarf star, located around 4,000 light-years away, has offered astronomers a possible glimpse into what our sun and Earth could look like in around 8 ...

When we think of exoplanets that may be able to support life, we home in on the habitable zone. A habitable zone is a region ...

While the James Webb Space Telescope has detected CO2 and methane on K2-18b, these gases are regularly produced by non-living processes.

The exoplanet orbits its host star in just over five days, making its "year" only a fraction of an Earth month. Its path ...

Astronomers from the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) in Australia and elsewhere have reinvestigated a planetary ...

Astronomers had to beat the clock to see the exoplanet before it disappeared for a decade. The James Webb Space Telescope has directly imaged its lowest mass extrasolar planet outside the solar ...

Located around 100 light-years away from Earth, the exoplanet is shrouded in a thick envelope of steam. This world, designated GJ 9827 d, is around twice the size of Earth, three times more ...

Conceptual image of an exoplanet with an advanced extraterrestrial civilization. Structures on the right are orbiting solar panel arrays that harvest light from the parent star and convert it into ...

Marshall, J. P. Moro-Martín, A. Eiroa, C. Kennedy, G. Mora, A. Sibthorpe, B. Lestrade, J.-F. Maldonado, J. Sanz-Forcada, J. Wyatt, M. C. Matthews, B. Horner, J ...

Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets : planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to discover new worlds goe ...