Of the seven Earth-sized worlds orbiting the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, one planet in particular has attracted the attention of scientists. This planet orbits the star within the "Goldilocks zone"—a ...

Astronomers may, for the first time, be confirming an exomoon in our universe, much like our moon, but outside our solar ...

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

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

"The James Webb Space Telescope has captured helium escape from this planet for the first time, and it is the most confident ...

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

Almost all planets in our solar system have moons – why not exoplanets? Astronomers believe they have discovered the first ...

A radio signal has been detected, pointing to the possible existence of a magnetic field on YZ Ceti b, an exoplanet 12 ...

Previous claims of exomoon discoveries haven’t stood up well to replication, but perhaps a new method will have more success.

After decades of searching, astronomers might finally be on the verge of discovering thefirst confirmed exomoon, a natural ...

Astronomers observed giant helium clouds escaping exoplanet WASP-107b, revealing atmospheric loss and offering key insight ...

A group of astronomers claim they have found the first exomoon in the universe. While we know about around 6,000 exoplanets, an exomoon has never been found. That might soon change if the latest ...