"By studying these planets, we can better understand how planets form in general, a bit like peering into the past of our ...

An exoplanet 60 light-years away from Earth, known as 14 Herculis c, is thought to be the coldest one yet found, researchers ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have captured breathtakingly detailed images of two giant exoplanets ...

A planetary system described as abnormal, chaotic, and strange by researchers has come into clearer view with NASA's James ...

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been used to discover Earth-size planet TOI 700 e. It is "orbiting ...

Astrophysicists have gained precious new insights into how distant exoplanets form and what their atmospheres can look like, ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have directly imaged two massive, youthful exoplanets in the YSES-1 ...

Thus, there must be billions of planets that lack intelligent forms of life; but it is no surprise that some must have intelligent life: “There’s at least 100 billion planets in just our galaxy,” says ...

Dusty clouds made of sand—that may rain iron—blanket a giant planet orbiting a young, sun-like star just 310 light-years from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed. The discovery was made ...

Planets may begin forming much earlier than scientists once believed during the final stages of a star s birth, not afterward ...

As astronomers study an exoplanet called K2-18b, conflicting research reveals how difficult it is to find evidence of life ...

Giant planets are not rare per se — after all, we have four in our own solar system. Such large worlds are, however, rarely ...