Using the JWST, an international team featuring UNIGE scientists has detected enormous clouds of helium streaming away from ...

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 ...

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

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

An Abu Dhabi scientist was part of a team of researchers who mapped temperatures on a planet 400 million light years away - ...

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

Exoplanets are far too small and dim compared with their parent star to be observed directly. Instead, space- and ...

The results show a circular “hotspot” on the side of the planet that always faces its star, surrounded by a cooler ring at ...

Researchers have pinpointed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby M-dwarf star only 18 light-years away.

(THE CONVERSATION) When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star’s habitable zone. Water is a key ingredient for life, and on a ...