New research has unveiled the potential for an atmosphere around an Earth -sized planet located approximately 40 light-years ...

With current rocket propulsion technology, it would take tens or hundreds of millennia to reach our neighboring star system, ...

If you were able to land on Uranus, which you can’t because it is made of gas, you would be greeted with something that ...

"TRAPPIST-1e has long been considered one of the best habitable zone planets to search for an atmosphere." Astronomers have investigated the atmosphere and potential habitability of a famous ...

Astronomers have discovered a hungry baby planet gobbling up material around an infant star located around 430 light-years from Earth. The planet has been given the suitably cute name WISPIT 2b.

Dark matter is one of the biggest puzzles in science. Although it makes up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe, it has never been directly observed. You can’t see it, touch it, or hold it ...

As missions like Kepler and TESS discovered more rocky exoplanets in recent years, scientists looked forward to the launch of the JWST. The powerful space telescope has the ability to gather infrared ...

Large exoplanets are more easily detected than small ones. It's axiomatic. While large planets block out more starlight during transits, small planets block out much less, letting them hide in the ...

When scientists discovered the first planet orbiting another star in 1995, few outside astronomy circles noticed. That planet, 51 Pegasi b, opened the door to a field that now boasts more than 5,000 ...

Using the Calar Alto 3.5-meter telescope, researchers captured near-infrared observations of helium escaping the atmosphere of a gas giant exoplanet called WASP-69b. Credit: Space.com / animation: ...