At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

Deep beneath the surface of distant exoplanets known as super-Earths, oceans of molten rock may be doing something ...

The James Webb telescope's search for habitable exoplanets is getting a big boost from its new star-watching companion, ...

The University of Arizona will serve as mission control for a newly launched space telescope designed to study distant ...

The hunt for worlds beyond our solar system has shifted from counting planets to confronting extremes that strain basic ...

Discovered by volunteer scientists, this alien planet is out of synch with its siblings ...

The planets have been nicknamed Earth's seven sisters. — -- An international team of astronomers has discovered seven potentially habitable exoplanets — or planets outside our solar system — that ...

Combining two kinds of quantum computing devices could be just the trick for taking better images of faint, faraway ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar system for the first time, scientists announced Monday. The gas giants are not ...

The team of astronomers behind the find suggested it could help us better understand planet and moon formation in our solar system and beyond the Milky Way. The team was able to make the first-ever ...