Using direct imaging, astronomers have found a brown dwarf that could help test technology for taking snapshots of Earthlike ...

An international team including astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Center of Competence in ...

What can star variability—changes in a star's brightness over time—teach astronomers about exoplanet habitability? This is ...

Astronomers have spotted a distant world "shedding" its atmosphere into space in real time, creating a giant cloud of helium ...

Using the Webb telescope’s powerful Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, the team detected a ...

Scorching planets that should be bone-dry may actually create their own water deep inside, forging oceans through molten rock ...

The exoplanet is located seven times closer to its star than Mercury is to our own planet.

Published in Nature Astronomy, the findings represent a first: while helium escape has been observed before, this is the ...

The U.S. Senate will hold its second hearing to consider billionaire tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman's nomination for NASA ...

Going into space is no small feat, and the cost to get people, satellites, and more to space is equally costly. Here are the ...

NASA has decided to launch a telescope in space to look for life on 20 distant planets.According to Time Magazine, NASA next year will launch a far smaller than usual telescope, weighing just 716 ...

This planet lies about 500 light years from the Earth and its 10 percent larger than our living planet. Though it has a ...