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

After decades of searching, astronomers may have finally stumbled upon the first moon known to exist beyond our solar ...

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

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

The Chandra X-ray Telescope is investigating the habitability of exoplanets. NASA explains. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...

An international team including astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Center of Competence in ...

What can star variability—changes in a star's brightness over time—teach astronomers about exoplanet habitability? This is ...

Using direct imaging, astronomers have found a brown dwarf that could help test technology for taking snapshots of Earthlike ...

The final integration of the telescope's major observatory components took place on Nov. 25 inside NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, where engineers brought together the ...

Analysis of early direct images from James Webb telescope show immense dust clouds on brown dwarf that lead to a blurring of ...

In young planetary systems, mutual collisions between asteroids or comets generate large amounts of dust, forming a "debris ...

See imaginative exoplanet worlds by St. Ann’s fifth graders at Blakemore Planetarium, Museum of the Southwest, on view ...