This brings us to the complexity of NASA's announcement. "Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

Today, I must share the latest groundbreaking discovery by the Webb Telescope! It recently observed 111 exoplanets and found ...

In a groundbreaking revelation, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has uncovered strong evidence suggesting the presence of a potential new exoplanet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, the closest sun-like ...

“These microbes, if we found them, would be anaerobic,” Schwieterman explains in the release, meaning the microscopic organisms don’t require oxygen to grow. “They’d be adapted to a very different ...

In the search for habitable exoplanets, atmospheric conditions play a key role in determining if a planet can sustain liquid ...

Pfalzner's models show that interstellar objects — bodies ejected from other star systems — could be captured by these planet-forming disks. These objects could "seed" the disks, sweeping past the ...

Astronomers have found over 5,000 exoplanets, and now scientists think these distant worlds could unlock one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: dark matter. A new study suggests that Jupiter-like ...

Located at a relatively close distance of 41 light years from Earth, the Trappist-1 system has attracted significant ...

To our surprise, a similar phenomenon of water vapor has also been observed on exoplanets far in the depths of the universe.

NASA has found an unexpected way to capture the public’s imagination: by reimagining distant exoplanets as if they were travel destinations. This creative project, first launched in 2015, has now ...

When scientists discovered the first planet orbiting another star in 1995, few outside astronomy circles noticed. That planet ...