Recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggests that a planet orbiting a small, red star 35 light years away ...

Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets : planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to discover new worlds goe ...

A planetary system anchored by a dead white dwarf star, located around 4,000 light-years away, has offered astronomers a possible glimpse into what our sun and Earth could look like in around 8 ...

When we think of exoplanets that may be able to support life, we home in on the habitable zone. A habitable zone is a region ...

A few decades ago, astronomers were just entering a new frontier of exoplanet discovery. Exoplanets are planets located outside our solar system. They orbit distant stars and represent mysterious ...

Data from the massive telescope also suggests the exoplanet, the name for a planet outside the solar system, may also have a surface covered in water and an atmosphere rich with hydrogen.

The exoplanet orbits its host star in just over five days, making its "year" only a fraction of an Earth month. Its path ...

While the James Webb Space Telescope has detected CO2 and methane on K2-18b, these gases are regularly produced by non-living processes.

Astronomers had to beat the clock to see the exoplanet before it disappeared for a decade. The James Webb Space Telescope has directly imaged its lowest mass extrasolar planet outside the solar ...

Conceptual image of an exoplanet with an advanced extraterrestrial civilization. Structures on the right are orbiting solar panel arrays that harvest light from the parent star and convert it into ...

With the discovery of planets beyond our solar system 25 years ago, exoplanet research has expanded dramatically, with new state-of-the-art ground-based and space-based missions dedicated to their ...