Astronomers discover a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune 250 light years away from our solar system. These planets offer a glimpse into planetary types missing from our own solar system but common in the ...

Webb’s latest discovery has opened a thrilling new chapter in exoplanet research by capturing the first-ever direct images of ...

We may be starting to get a grasp on what kick-started life on Earth – and it could help us search for it on other planets ...

The discovery is keeping astronomers on their toes about how planets are formed.

The JWST has spotted the presence of carbon dioxide on HR 8799’s four known planets, part of a system astronomers use to ...

New James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images show the first carbon dioxide-containing planet discovered outside of Earth’s ...

Considering humans don't have a spacecraft capable of traveling to planets beyond the solar system, scientists have to get ...

Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery — and some ...

and any atmosphere is likely to have been stripped away. The teams looked for longer-period planets, further out in the star’s habitable zone, but didn’t find any. We don’t know much else ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...

Discover how iron's opacity in the sun challenges scientific models, and how researchers are working to resolve the ...