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

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

Of the seven Earth-sized worlds orbiting the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, one planet in particular has attracted the attention of scientists. This planet orbits the star within the "Goldilocks zone"—a ...

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

Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far. Scientists are even beginning to move beyond mere detections, and working on ...

Discover what it would take to make distant exoplanets habitable and the challenges involved. Legal analysts react to Trump’s ...

"The James Webb Space Telescope has captured helium escape from this planet for the first time, and it is the most confident ...

Jane Green and Rev. Prof. David Wilkinson discuss NASA finding new exoplanets.

Scorching planets that should be bone-dry may actually create their own water deep inside, forging oceans through molten rock ...

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

A nearby binary star system is bereft of giant planets, but scientists think it may still be a decent place to look for life.

Using the JWST, an international team featuring UNIGE scientists has detected enormous clouds of helium streaming away from ...