Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

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

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...

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

The planets are all too hot for life as we know it, but astronomers haven’t given up searching for more planets in Barnard's ...

What can Venus-like exoplanets, also known as exoVenuses, teach us about our own solar system and potentially finding life beyond Earth, and how can the planned Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) ...

However, after re-evaluating using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers discovered that Enaiposha shares more similarities with Venus than previously thought, leading to the proposal of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar ...

What can carbon dioxide in an exoplanet’s atmosphere teach us about its formation and evolution? This is what a recent study ...

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

A new study is challenging the science of the formation of sub-Neptunian planets, which are the most common in the Milkey Way ...

Young, close-orbiting exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes may form farther from their stars and migrate inward or lose their ...