Using JWST, scientists discovered PSR J2322-2650b — a carbon-rich, lemon-shaped exoplanet orbiting a pulsar — challenging ...

Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has found the strongest evidence yet that a small, rocky planet outside our solar system ...

Imagine a planet orbiting the largest known star, Stevenson 218. This video explores the tantalizing scientific possibility ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system, detecting in an alien ...

Want to be a top notch candidate for hosting alien life? Then there's a few key requirements you should be aware of: Ideally, ...

James Webb finds a hot planet that is tidally locked with its parent star, is coated with a thick atmosphere of volatile chemicals.

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope suggests that exoplanet TOI-561 b is surrounded by a thick atmosphere above a global magma ocean.

Astronomers have gazed into what appears to be a planetary maternity ward, observing for the first time within a huge disk of dense gas and dust surrounding a newly formed star a planet in the process ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

The Kepler-22b reveal flips the storyline of the series. What started as a story about Earth going through a bizarre ...

Astronomers are preparing for a rare observational opportunity as interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS approaches its closest point to ...