Astronomers rarely see distant planets directly, instead tracking tiny stellar wobbles and fading light. How do these subtle ...

NASA ’s James Webb Space Telescope has found the strongest evidence yet that a small, rocky planet outside our solar system ...

How many exoplanets orbit two stars? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to ...

Hannah Wong told staff she is moving on to her “next chapter.” The company will be running an executive search to find a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has turned its infrared eye on the rogue world SIMP0136, and the data is spectacular. For the ...

Scientists searched 27 exoplanets for alien technology using planetary eclipses, revealing a new way SETI hunts signals ...

An ultra-hot rocky exoplanet may be wrapped in a dense atmosphere, defying expectations about what small planets can sustain.

Astronomers are uncovering distant worlds beyond our solar system using ingenious indirect methods like observing stellar ...

James Webb Space Telescope observations reveal atmospheric gases above the molten rocky exoplanet TOI-561 b, providing the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere on a tidally-locked ultra-hot ...

Scientists have for the first time mapped the 3D structure of an exoplanet’s atmosphere, uncovering violent winds and bizarre ...

Webb’s latest observations reveal a hellish world cloaked in an unexpected atmosphere: TOI-561 b, an ultra-hot rocky planet ...

New research reveals that these colossal worlds likely have highly turbulent, chaotic atmospheres, defying the typical image ...