What planet is most like Earth? Reseachers have identified several exoplanets similar to our planet, but none that are an ...

Astronomers from the University of Geneva, working with colleagues in Canada and the United States, have captured the ...

Webb telescope discovered a bizarre exoplanet with carbon atmosphere, no hydrogen, orbiting a super-dense spinning star.

In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

The 247th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS 247) is being held Jan. 4 to Jan. 8 and will feature remarkable ...

Exoplanets come up a lot these days, usually in headlines about distant stars, strange atmospheres, or the possibility of ...

Astronomers have discovered a carbon-rich exoplanet with a bizarre atmosphere and shape, orbiting a neutron star under extreme conditions that challenge current models of planetary formation. Scientis ...

One of the primary goals of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is to detect atmospheres around exoplanets, to try to suss out whether or not they could potentially support life. But, in order to do ...

There are hundreds of millions of planets around other stars in our Milky Way galaxy that may be habitable, argues a new research paper. These exoplanets (planets orbiting a star other than our sun) ...

In another exoplanetary first, the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile’s Atacama Desert has captured an image of two worlds orbiting a younger version of the Sun. The ...

MILAN — The European Space Agency has confirmed a security breach of unclassified material from science servers following ...

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