NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has spotted early signs of an atmosphere on TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized exoplanet 40 light years away. The discovery raises hopes that this distant world could host ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope are unraveling the mysteries of TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized exoplanet 40 ...

Scientists have gotten a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons like the ...

The striking thing about this is that repeating the procedure on the star turned up no evidence of carbon-based chemicals, ...

How will NASA's upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) mission differentiate Earth-sized exoplanets from other ...

With the discovery of ever more exoplanets—over 6,000 now—scientists, of course, want to know if they are habitable for life.

A new study rules out the existence of global oceans of water on Neptune-like planets such as K2-18b, finding their water ...

Now, thanks to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have made the first direct measurements of one such disk around ...

In May 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were testing how radio waves bounced off balloon satellites developed by Bell ...

That is what astronomers from Trinity College Dublin have delivered, thanks to the powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) ...

While SIMP-0136 is a brown dwarf, not a true planet, the techniques used to study it pave the way for future explorations of ...