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

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than previously thought — and may be a big reason that our planet harbors life.

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study 25 hot Jupiters. It has helped to answer "questions important to our understanding of exoplanet atmospheres," according to the Hubble team. Credit: ...

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

The transforming exoplanet that was observed by the WIYN 3.5-meter telescope at the U.S. National Science Foundation Kitt Peak National Observatory has a strangely elongated orbit. Credit: Images and ...

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 ...

These are just a taste of the discoveries made by the $10 billion Webb telescope since it began science observations in 2022.

Research indicates that the James Webb Space Telescope could help confirm the presence of life-supporting atmospheres on exoplanets in the "Goldilocks zone," enhancing the likelihood of discovering ...

The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found an exoplanet unlike any other. This unique world has an atmosphere almost ...

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

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