However, astronomers in Hawaii just spotted a pair of exciting discoveries — a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf — using Japan ...

New research shows how the star's powerful outbursts could help scientists assess which worlds might support life.

Of the seven Earth-sized worlds orbiting the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, one planet in particular has attracted the attention ...

The first planet to be discovered inside the habitable zone of a Sun-like star. Its name is Kepler 22-b. When a planet is located within a star's habitable zone, it means that there is a chance that ...

More studies are needed to determine whether TRAPPIST-1e has an atmosphere at all, or the hints of methane are linked to the ...

An international team including astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Center of Competence in ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have captured dramatic helium streams pouring off the super-puff exoplanet ...

That’s why scientists designed an instrument called coronagraph in the early 1930s. Coronagraph, as NASA describes, is ...

Japan's Subaru Telescope’s OASIS survey directly imaged a massive exoplanet and a brown dwarf, highlighting new opportunities for studying distant planetary systems.

After decades of searching, astronomers may have finally stumbled upon the first moon known to exist beyond our solar ...

Astronomers observed giant helium clouds escaping exoplanet WASP-107b, revealing atmospheric loss and offering key insight ...

The RISTRETTO project, dedicated to observing Proxima b –the closest exoplanet to the Solar System — is reaching a new milestone: several key components of this high-precision spectrograph have been ...