Researchers suggest that certain gases detected in the atmospheres of exoplanets could be key indicators in the search for ...

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

Long before astronomers discovered the first exoplanet in 1992, the idea of worlds orbiting distant stars captivated the ...

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

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

For the first time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured direct images of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere ...

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 directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar ...

"We can see, for the first time, rings of dust surrounding protoplanets made visible by the bright starlight reflecting off ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) telescope will be actively looking for traces of life on Earth-like planets in other ...

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

More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...