"It confirms K2-18 b to be our best chance to study a potential habitable environment beyond the solar system at the present time." ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have made the shock discovery that giant rogue exoplanets can grow their ...

Since the discovery of planetary nebulae in the late 1700s, astronomers have learned that these expanding shells of glowing ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a stunning view of the N79 nebula, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit: ...

"These are the first JWST observations of tidal disruption events, and they look nothing like what we’ve ever seen before." ...

A large sub-Neptune-sized planet revolving around a red dwarf star 124 light years away has been the topic of debate among ...

Showing that you shouldn't draw conclusions based on too few facts, new NASA research suggests that a decades-old view of ...

The Very Large Telescope in Chile has found, for the first time, an infant planet nestled in spiral arms of dust around a distant sun-like star.

A newly discovered exoplanet may offer astronomers a rare look at how planetary evolution unfolds, revealing the processes ...

Claims that extraterrestrial life may exist on the exoplanet K2-18b face new challenges from James Webb Space Telescope data.

NASA's James Webb Super Telescope found something intriguing when studying exoplanets: rain. But not the kind of rain it ...

The newly discovered L 98-59 f is a super-Earth, with a minimum mass 2.8 times that of our planet. It follows a nearly circular 23-day orbit around its star, receiving about the same amount of stellar ...