The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

GJ 1214 b, nicknamed Enaiposha, is a planet discovered 47 light-years away that has been reclassified from a mini-Neptune to ...

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...

A distant exoplanet discovered, named Enaiposha, is unlike anything found in our own solar system, similar to a "super-Venus" ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...

Astronomers discover a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune 250 light years away from our solar system. These planets offer a ...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured direct images of gas giants in HR 8799, revealing their carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...

2025 — A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new ... Mar. 14, 2025 — Astronomers have ...

The recent findings up the number of exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star from one to at least three, possibly four, as ...