New findings from the ALMA telescope have revealed that planets are born in much smaller protoplanetary disks than ...

So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

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

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

From this route, the resulting exoplanet would be expected to share roughly the same composition as its parent star. ‘The ...

Thermal emission measurements from the exoplanet Trappist-1 b suggest two plausible yet contradictory scenarios ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor and thick clouds on LTT 9779 b, an ultra-hot Neptune locked in a ...

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

However, it is unlikely that we will find any life there. Astronomers have long suspected that there was at least one ...

In 2022, the Webb telescope detected unequivocal evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet called ...