After many previous claims and false alarms, astronomers can finally confirm the existence of at least four planets less ...

Astronomers have identified an extreme exoplanet, LTT 9779 b, that is reshaping our understanding of planetary atmospheres.

As Bajaj puts it: "These James Webb Space Telescope data sets are so beautiful." ...

Astronomers have found four small planets orbiting Barnard's Star, the second-closest star system to Earth. These planets are ...

Researchers discovered a planet-forming disk that lasted 30 million years. This challenges previous estimates of 10 million ...

IT’S been nearly 40 years since the first planet outside of our Solar System was discovered. Since then, more than 5,800 weird and wonderful worlds across 4,300 planetary systems have been ...

A new study by Rice University researchers Sho Shibata and Andre Izidoro presents a compelling new model for the formation of ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered into the atmosphere of a cosmic body that could be a ...

About 650 light-years from here, in the constellation Aquarius, lies the planetary nebula Caldwell 63, commonly known as the ...

Studying the orbits of thousands of exoplanets shows that large planets tend to have elliptical orbits, while smaller planets tend to have more circular orbits. This split coincides with several other ...