In the remote outer reaches of planetary systems, far beyond the orbit of known planets, enormous and mysterious worlds ...

What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a study recently posted to the arXiv preprint server hopes to ...

Nestled inside a planetary ring 110 light-years from Earth, a planet spotted by the James Webb telescope is the lightest ...

A team from the University of Tokyo, led by visiting researcher Gaku Nishiyama, realized that the instrument would be able to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered an exoplanet using the direct-imaging technique. The host star's light was ...

The European space telescope PLATO of the European Space Agency (ESA), scheduled to start its search for Earth-like planets orbiting Sun-like stars from ... How have planet systems formed and how do ...

Astronomers confirm TOI-5573 b, a rare, miniature Saturn-like planet orbiting a small star, challenging theories of planetary ...

Astronomers have been trying to detect atmospheres on planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1, but bursts of radiation from the star make ...

Wide-orbit planets are fairly common according to the study, and there's a good chance we have one of our own.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) provided the first direct image of a planet with a mass similar to Saturn's, ...

NASA is preparing for severe cuts under the White House’s proposed budget for 2026. The budget, released in May, highlights ...