At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

Deep beneath the surface of distant exoplanets known as super-Earths, oceans of molten rock may be doing something ...

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

Astronomers have captured the most dramatic view yet of a planet losing its atmosphere, watching the ultra-hot gas giant WASP ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

Researchers believe super-Earths orbiting long-lived orange dwarf stars may offer better conditions for life than Earth.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

Dust disks around stars where exoplanets form have been imaged for years. However, they become darker and elude research – ...

Combining two kinds of quantum computing devices could be just the trick for taking better images of faint, faraway ...

The James Webb telescope's search for habitable exoplanets is getting a big boost from its new star-watching companion, ...

The University of Arizona will serve as mission control for a newly launched space telescope designed to study distant ...

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...