"As the large and bright discs are the easiest to observe, our previous view of the birth site of planets was biased." ...

Every year, scientists discover something new and amazing about the universe. Some of these you'll hear about no problem, but ...

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

Astronomers have recently unveiled an extraordinary discovery in the cosmos: a new exoplanet named Enaiposha, located 47 ...

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...

Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

Explore Earth and its relationships with a plethora of planets, stars and galaxies in its cosmic family, Laniakea, the ...

Astronomers discover a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune 250 light years away from our solar system. These planets offer a ...

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

In 2022, the Webb telescope detected unequivocal evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet called ...