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

Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far. Scientists are even beginning to move beyond mere detections, and working on ...

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

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

Astronomers are just beginning to scratch the surface of the complex, and sometimes violent, relationships between planets ...

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

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

Scientists have detected the first direct evidence of a coronal mass ejection from a star beyond our Sun, specifically the M dwarf StKM1-1262. This massive expulsion of plasma, observed as a Type II ...

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

The Pandora Space Telescope will study 20 promising worlds that could host life ...

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

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