Gavin Wang, a rising senior studying physics and mathematics, has been named a 2025 Astronaut Scholar by the Astronaut ...

Astronomers have spotted a new gas giant exoplanet that formed roughly 160 million years ago and is now glowing pink. The big pink planet is several times the mass of Jupiter, but roughly the same ...

Could animals adapt to an exoplanet’s extreme conditions? Imagine a planet light-years away with conditions beyond Earth’s wildest environments perhaps scorching temperatures, freezing cold ...

An exoplanet discovered in 2020 contains the coldest temperatures ever measured on a planetary body, according to scientists.

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected what could be distinct signs of life on a "potentially habitable" world nearly 50 million lightyears away.

An exoplanet 60 light-years away from Earth, known as 14 Herculis c, is thought to be the coldest one yet found, researchers claim in a new study.

Thus far astronomers have identified more than 5,000 exoplanets, but among all of those, most seem to be either super-Earths or sub-Neptune sized. Now, after observing several planets that have been ...

Exoplanet Gliese 12 b is slightly smaller than Earth–about the size of our sister planet Venus –and has a fairly temperate surface temperature for an exoplanet.

2023 was a landmark year for exoplanet discoveries, including many that could harbor alien life The James Webb Space Telescope confirmed its first exoplanet sighting and much more ...

The first image of an exoplanet captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA, A Carter (UCSC), the ERS 1386 team, and A. Pagan (STScI).

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) notched another astronomical achievement in its figurative belt: It discovered carbon-based molecules in the atmosphere of an exoplanet, a planet that is far ...

A European Space Agency satellite has observed the shiniest exoplanet ever discovered. The scorching world has reflective clouds made of silicates and titanium.