The Very Large Telescope's SPHERE instrument captured unprecedented images of 51 dusty rings shaping young planetary systems.

"We reported hints of methane, but the question is, 'is the methane attributable to molecules in the atmosphere of the planet ...

If humanity was forced to leave Earth and settle on another planet, where would we go? Well, today, we will look at six of ...

For the first time, scientists have continuously monitored a planet's escaping atmosphere over a complete orbit, revealing ...

There is a new method to detect and map spots on stars by "using observations from NASA missions of orbiting planets." ...

More research is needed before scientists can determine whether the recently observed methane signatures point to the presence of an atmosphere or are simply the result of contamination from the host ...

After cataloging thousands of worlds beyond our solar system, astronomers are now closing in on a far rarer prize: a moon ...

The RISTRETTO project, dedicated to observing Proxima b –the closest exoplanet to the Solar System — is reaching a new ...

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

NASA has completed assembly of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, moving the mission into critical testing before its ...

No, not that Nancy Grace. NASA's newest space telescope, named after the agency's first Chief of Astronomy, is physically ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb claims the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is not just a comet, but a technological artefact ...