Interest in steam world exoplanets really heated up in October 2024 when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovered the ...

Astronomers have discovered a giant Saturn-sized planet orbiting TOI-6894, the smallest star ever known to host such a world.

This article details our understanding of star and planet formation within galaxies, recognising the dynamic nature of ...

ASTRONOMERS AT THE University of Galway are part of an international team of researchers who have discovered a new planet ...

Scientists have now observed that planets in the habitable zone, even with water and an atmosphere, are often marred by high levels of carbon dioxide, which is toxic to life as we know it. So the ...

Even more remarkable is that while many planets would be consumed by their parasitic black hole, it is feasible that some ...

And water, along with carbon monoxide, also has been detected in the most massive galaxy in the early universe which is located nearly 12.88 billion light years from Earth. Detection of these two ...

In the past two decades, astronomers have discovered nearly 2,000 planets orbiting sun-like stars in the solar neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy, and humanity is now a little bit closer to ...

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Additionally, as a member of the team that developed NIRISS, Prof. Kaltenegger will work with the NIRISS team to take pictures of planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1, a star lying in a galaxy 40 light ...