A new theory explains how dozens of mysterious planet pairs discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope, dubbed "JuMBOs," ...

NASA's TESS satellite has discovered a Neptune-sized exoplanet closely orbiting its host star. It's just the fourth object of ...

Researchers are preparing to study the atmospheres of Earth-sized exoplanets, focusing on distinguishing those similar to ...

Extrasolar gas giant planets are a necessary stop on the road to finding life elsewhere in the cosmos. Here's why we need to ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has detected a new exoplanet ...

Although scientists have catalogued over 5,800 exoplanets, including many baby planets, orbiting other stars since the ...

Astronomers have uncovered an extraordinary planetary system that offers fresh insights into the dynamics of planets orbiting ...

Scientists using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope sought to observe a planet beyond our solar system (an exoplanet) ...

Astronomers are detecting hundreds of exoplanets — worlds that don't orbit the sun — each year. Here are some of the new 2024 ...

In the next decade, researchers will start probing the atmosphere of planets as small as Earth and Venus orbiting nearby ...

Earth's name, unlike other planets named after Greco-Roman deities, originates from Old English "eorþe," meaning soil or ...

Encountering Neptune in 1989, NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer ...