In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

Surprised astronomers just discovered a world that blurs the line between planet and stellar remnant, hiding in a system ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has found a unique exoplanet. This Jupiter-sized world orbits a pulsar closely. Its atmosphere ...

Astronomers have discovered a carbon-rich exoplanet with a bizarre atmosphere and shape, orbiting a neutron star under extreme conditions that challenge current models of planetary formation. Scientis ...

Piette said an atmosphere would allow gases like water vapor to absorb some wavelengths of light, keeping the telescope's ...

This year NASA unveiled new discoveries beyond our solar system, the count has surpassed 6,000, with several thousands more ...

A molten lava world cloaked in a thick envelope of vaporized rock could be the strongest evidence we have yet of a rocky ...

The distant planet appears to be in the shape of a lemon as the pulsar's intense gravity stretches the planet.

"Abnormal, chaotic and strange" are just a few adjectives astronomers are using to describe a perplexing planetary system 60 light-years from Earth. And for one of the two exoplanets orbiting the ...

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NASA is celebrating a big milestone after the 6,000th exoplanet discovery was confirmed this week. Exoplanets are worlds outside our solar system. Just over three decades ago, the first exoplanets ...

Could a recently discovered "super-Earth" have the potential temperature and conditions to sustain life? The new exoplanet is situated "fairly close to us" -- only 137 light-years away -- and orbits ...