Scientists have scored a pristine view of a pair of exotic worlds orbiting a star more than 300 light-years away — one with ...

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

With 10 times the mass of our planet, and spending only part of its orbit in the habitable zone, Kepler-725c is very ...

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 ...

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

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

Our telescopes find new exoplanets and reveal deeper details about them everyday, unveiling massive hydrogen-rich atmosphere planets and icy worlds which may be able to harbor life even far from any ...

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 ...

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

Scientists have discovered a giant planet orbiting a tiny red dwarf star, something they believed wasn t even possible. The ...

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