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

"As the large and bright discs are the easiest to observe, our previous view of the birth site of planets was biased." ...

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

Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has detected a new warm Jupiter ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

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

Here's where the James Webb Space Telescope comes in. Its advanced technology, including its large mirror and suite of ...

NASA's TESS telescope has discovered an intriguing exoplanet, TOI-1453 c, located 250 light-years away, with an unusually low ...

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

A paper published in 2023 spurred discussion about whether life exists on an exoplanet named K2-18b. Two years later, the ...

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

Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket will make history with its 11th human flight, NS-31, featuring the all-female crew.