A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and the NCCR PlanetS is challenging our understanding of the solar system ...

The search for aliens has led astronomers to scour the farthest reaches of the cosmos for signs of life. But a new study suggests that we might not need to look so far from home. According to NASA ...

Do they look similar to Jupiter? A new study finds they probably don't. Before getting into the details, let's talk about the ...

That’s why scientists designed an instrument called coronagraph in the early 1930s. Coronagraph, as NASA describes, is ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

More studies are needed to determine whether TRAPPIST-1e has an atmosphere at all, or the hints of methane are linked to the ...

Japan's Subaru Telescope’s OASIS survey directly imaged a massive exoplanet and a brown dwarf, highlighting new opportunities for studying distant planetary systems.

Does the Earth-sized TRAPPIST-1e have the conditions for supporting life as we know it, specifically an appropriate ...

Key components of the new spectrograph designed at UNIGE have been successfully tested. They will enable analysis of light from the exoplanet Proxima b.

Researchers studied the data closely and suggested a few possible ideas about the planet’s atmosphere and surface.

Now, Nasa and its European counterpart have released new images of 31/ATLAS ahead of its close encounter with Earth on ...

Using the SPHERE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have created an extraordinary set of images showing debris disks in a wide ...