The exoplanet — named 14 Herculis c, or 14 Her c for short — orbits a sunlike star about 60 light-years from Earth in the constellation Hercules. In the new JWST image, it appears as a faint, fuzzy ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has just achieved an unprecedented feat by capturing a direct image of a distant, icy planet. This discovery opens a new window for studying foreign ...

After the first planet was found, the race was on to discover more. After the year 2000, a series of ground-based telescope networks began to emerge, designed to search systematically for more ...

The planet 2M1510 (AB) b orbits two stars — like Luke Skywalker’s home planet of Tatooine, for the Star Wars fans — but it does so in a highly unusual way.

Astronomers have spotted a bizarre exoplanet with the most oblong, hairpin-style orbit ever discovered, and it may be on the path to becoming a “hot Jupiter.” ...

The question of whether planets can be alive forces us to confront the definition of life itself. Traditionally, life is seen as something that grows, reproduces, and evolves.

It had not been thought possible that such tiny, weak stars could provide the conditions needed to form and host huge planets.

Our solar system has a nice selection of planet types. We have ultra-hot worlds orbiting close to our Sun, rocky worlds like Earth and Mars, … ...