Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have observed a rare type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar system ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

THESE PLANETS ARE WEIRD! Humanity has long looked up into the night sky and wondered what all those twinkling lights above us ...

The galaxy’s most common stars may be missing a key ingredient for life: Long-lived moons. Most stars in our galaxy are small ...

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

Lurking further from its stars than Neptune is from the Sun, this is no inner planet, but it’s on a scale we recognize, ...

635 light-years from where you are sitting, way out in outer space, lies a planet. The first planet to be discovered inside the habitable zone of a Sun-like star. Its name is Kepler 22-b. When a ...

A network of powerful ground-based telescopes captured rare starspot-crossing events on TOI-3884b, revealing cooler patches ...

Searching for exomoons—moons that orbit around another planet—was one of the most exciting capabilities expected of the James ...

Scientists have identified three Earth-sized planets orbiting two stars in the TOI-2267 system. Remarkably, planets transit around both stars — a first in astronomy. The system’s compact, cold nature ...