Researchers suggest that certain gases detected in the atmospheres of exoplanets could be key indicators in the search for ...

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

Long before astronomers discovered the first exoplanet in 1992, the idea of worlds orbiting distant stars captivated the ...

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

Over the past few years or so the most talked about kind of telescope was the one that is meant to operate in space. An ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar ...

"We can see, for the first time, rings of dust surrounding protoplanets made visible by the bright starlight reflecting off ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) telescope will be actively looking for traces of life on Earth-like planets in other ...

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky ...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured direct images of gas giants in HR 8799, revealing their carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.