"We can see, for the first time, rings of dust surrounding protoplanets made visible by the bright starlight reflecting off ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar ...

A peculiar exoplanet named Enaiposha challenges our understanding of celestial bodies, blending traits of mini-Neptunes and ...

Astronomers have identified an ultra-light exoplanet orbiting the star TOI-1453, located 250 light-years from Earth. While ...

Astronomers discover a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune 250 light years away from our solar system. These planets offer a ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...

A new study is challenging the science of the formation of sub-Neptunian planets, which are the most common in the Milkey Way ...

Webb’s latest discovery has opened a thrilling new chapter in exoplanet research by capturing the first-ever direct images of ...