Astronomers at UCL and Warwick discovered that aging stars devour nearby planets as they swell into red giants. NASA’s TESS ...

Learn how exoplanets are discovered, what makes planets beyond our solar system unique, and how they drive the ongoing search ...

A giant exoplanet orbiting a nearby dwarf star has been found in an ideal location for next-generation telescopes to search ...

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a main guiding principle. “All life on Earth needs liquid water, no matter ...

According to the researchers, because it is rocky and located in the star's habitable zone, it may be habitable.

A team from the University of Maryland and Cornell University developed the first three-dimensional temperature map of ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to create the first-ever 3D map of an exoplanet, WASP-18b. The planet's extreme heat is believed to disintegrate water.

Astronomers have recently unlocked a new frontier in exoplanet exploration, generating the first 3D map of a distant world.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first detailed look at a carbon-rich disk surrounding the exoplanet CT Cha ...

Scientists have studied our solar system, which is home to eight major planets and more than 400 known moons orbiting six of them, to understand the new phase of the moon formation observed around ...

The first three-dimensional map of a planet orbiting another star reveals an atmosphere with distinct temperature zones.