The James Webb and Very Large telescopes spotted a free-floating planet accreting material at a record rate, displaying ...

New research suggests that the telescope could be poised to detect an Earth-sized planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, our ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made the first 3D map of an alien planet's atmosphere, revealing ...

Scientists used the James Webb Space Telescope to check if another Earth-sized planet orbits Proxima Centauri, our nearest ...

Is a sun a star or a planet? While science now agrees the sun is a star, new telescopes may soon challenge how we define ...

In a remarkable discovery, astronomers have unearthed a six-planet system orbiting the star HD 110067, where the celestial ...

A giant exoplanet orbiting a nearby dwarf star has been found in an ideal location for next-generation telescopes to search for potential signs of life. The discovery of a potential “super-Earth” loca ...

Mike Brown is convinced that beyond Neptune, at the far reaches of our solar system, there's an unseen giant planet. "This is the 5th largest planet in our solar system, lurking out there, waiting to ...

About a decade ago the American space agency seriously started considering a series of telescopes dedicated to finding definitive proof of life on worlds located in other solar systems. It did so by ...

As telescopes have become more powerful, it's turned out our solar system is not the only game in town: There are millions of ...

About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 ...

Astronomers have discovered that aging stars may be devouring their closest giant planets as they swell into red giants.