Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have identified a previously unknown kind of exoplanet, one whose ...

On Jan. 15, 2025, the Gaia spacecraft took its last image. Then the craft ran a final round of engineering tests, fired its ...

What planet is most like Earth? Reseachers have identified several exoplanets similar to our planet, but none that are an ...

American scientist heads the Carl Sagan Center and researches the potential for humans to inhabit the extreme environments of ...

While surveying distant worlds beyond our solar system, researchers unexpectedly obtained the first direct images showing ...

How did hot Jupiters end up orbiting so close to their stars, thus earning their moniker? This is what a recent study ...

James Webb observations show TOI-561b, an ultra-hot rocky exoplanet, has a thick atmosphere that redistributes heat.

Exoplanets come up a lot these days, usually in headlines about distant stars, strange atmospheres, or the possibility of ...

A strange world just 47 light-years from Earth is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about alien planets. Hidden ...

The James Webb Space Telescope detected an atmosphere on a lava-covered exoplanet, evidence that small planets close to stars ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed astonishing new details about an already known but highly unusual ...

ISS microgravity experiments reveal how particles cluster, helping science on Earth and future space missions.