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 ...

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 ...