Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international cooperation of NASA and the European and Canadian space agencies, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

A stronomers have discovered a new exoplanet that orbits a red dwarf star “just” six light-years away from Earth. Barnard’s star is the closest solo star and the second-closest stellar ...

A few decades ago, astronomers were just entering a new frontier of exoplanet discovery. Exoplanets are planets located outside our solar system. They orbit distant stars and represent mysterious ...

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

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

Data from the massive telescope also suggests the exoplanet, the name for a planet outside the solar system, may also have a surface covered in water and an atmosphere rich with hydrogen.

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 ...

With the discovery of planets beyond our solar system 25 years ago, exoplanet research has expanded dramatically, with new state-of-the-art ground-based and space-based missions dedicated to their ...