After decades of searching, astronomers may have finally stumbled upon the first moon known to exist beyond our solar ...
European astronomers report the discovery of a second alien world in the TOI-1422 planetary system located some 500 light ...
Using the Webb telescope’s powerful Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, the team detected a sprawling helium cloud known as an exosphere. This exosphere stretches ...
An international team including astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Center of Competence in ...
The James Webb Telescope is reshaping our understanding of distant worlds, revealing exoplanet atmospheres, potential ...
Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far.
Since then, over 6,000 confirmed exoplanets —or planets orbiting other stars—have been found, leading astronomers to conclude ...
Could a recently discovered "super-Earth" have the potential temperature and conditions to sustain life? The new exoplanet is situated "fairly close to us" -- only 137 light-years away -- and orbits ...