Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have detected the strongest evidence yet for an atmosphere on a rocky ...

In a discovery that's fit for a movie, Northwestern University astronomers have directly imaged a Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns. While obtaining an image of a planet beyond our solar ...

The hunt is on for terrestrial exoplanets in habitable zones, and some of the most promising candidates were discovered ...

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

Our Sun is about halfway through its life, which means Earth is as well. After a star exhausts its hydrogen nuclear fuel, its ...

Scorching planets that should be bone-dry may actually create their own water deep inside, forging oceans through molten rock ...

Among the three initially reported TRAPPIST-1 planets, one of them—called ‘TRAPPIST-1d’ in the discovery publication 1 —was identified on the basis of only two transit signals, observed at a moderate ...

Tidally locked exoplanets, termed "eyeball planets," orbiting red dwarf stars within their habitable zones present unique conditions for potential habitability. These planets exhibit perpetually ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. Here in the Solar System, we can watch our star's eight planets orbit ...