A distant flicker of light from a star can reveal more than you might expect. In fact, a brief, subtle brightening in the sky ...

The solar gravitation lens (SGL) has much potential as a telescope. This point in space, located about 650 AU away from the ...

"I had been waiting my entire career for Webb so that we could meaningfully characterize the atmospheres of these smaller ...

An exoplanet discovered in 2020 contains the coldest temperatures ever measured on a planetary body, according to scientists.

Planet TOI-421b lacks the haze of other exoplanets, which means we're able to get a surprisingly clear understanding of it.

New views of TOI-421 b by JWST gives insight into how the most common type of planet in the galaxy might form.

Scientists have discovered an exoplanet 140 light-years away that's rapidly disintegrating as it orbits its star every 30 ...

Comets that have hit Earth have been a mixed bag. Early in Earth's history, during the solar system's chaotic beginning, they ...

An illustration shows what exoplanet K2-18b might look like based on data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. K2-18b is 8 ...

Recently, a new discovery has been made in the astronomy world in the form of a new exoplanet, Wolf 327b, which orbits the ...

In addition to the exoplanet’s polar orbit, the brown dwarf pair itself is extraordinarily rare. They form an eclipsing ...

Using the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet), an international team of researchers has discovered that super-Earth ...