A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around another star, they had ...

"Every new result can reshape our understanding of planets, their habitability, and our place in this universe." ...

U.S. team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet's atmosphere long considered to be "biosignatures" ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...

A powerful new observatory is the best hope yet for finding the elusive Planet 9, a large planet that some scientists say is ...

2025 — 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 ... Combination of Cosmic Processes ...

"What surprised us, at the end, was how effective this type of impact could be in explaining Mercury's unusual structure ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond ...

In a stunning new finding, astronomers have uncovered the strongest evidence yet of life existing beyond our solar system. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers from the University of ...

The research was published in the journal Science Advances ... can help us understand how conditions beyond our solar system may yield planets vastly different from our own, said study author ...