"The James Webb Space Telescope has captured helium escape from this planet for the first time, and it is the most confident ...

After decades of searching, astronomers may have finally stumbled upon the first moon known to exist beyond our solar ...

After decades of searching, astronomers might finally be on the verge of discovering thefirst confirmed exomoon, a natural ...

An international team including astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Center of Competence in ...

Analysis of early direct images from James Webb telescope show immense dust clouds on brown dwarf that lead to a blurring of ...

When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star's habitable zone. Water is a key ingredient for life, and on a planet too close to ...

Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far. Scientists are even beginning to move beyond mere detections, and working on ...

The Pandora Space Telescope will study 20 promising worlds that could host life ...

A team of scientists is developing a "quantum-sensitive" device that could capture direct images of Earth-like exoplanets — something astronomers tend to consider so difficult it's nearly impossible.

The planets have been nicknamed Earth's seven sisters. — -- An international team of astronomers has discovered seven potentially habitable exoplanets — or planets outside our solar system — that ...

See imaginative exoplanet worlds by St. Ann’s fifth graders at Blakemore Planetarium, Museum of the Southwest, on view ...