Here's where the James Webb Space Telescope comes in. Its advanced technology, including its large mirror and suite of ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has done it again. Though it's notoriously difficult to snap direct images of distant ...

Enaiposha (GJ 1214 b), a super-hot exoplanet 47 light-years away, challenges scientists with its thick haze, metal-rich ...

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

Young Gas Giant HR 8799 e (NIRCam Spectrum) / Credit: NASA Astronomers have now discovered nearly 6,000 exoplanets, many of them massive — and none of them known to be habitable. The "huge leap ...

MARSHALL - The Marshall library is one of 10 libraries throughout the nation to be selected to host a NASA exhibit. The exhibit, "Discover Exoplanets: The Search for Alien Worlds" debuted on March 10.

Although starshades – a technology first proposed in the 1960s, four decades before the first exoplanet was discovered – have never flown in space and have not been approved for flight, they could ...

such as the exoplanet WASP-39 b imagined in this illustration. IMAGE NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) Could there be life on planets outside our solar system? For astrophysicists, it’s a big ...

Scientists have used data from NASA's retired planet-hunting space ... Kepler uncovered thousands of exoplanets. The UCLA team turned to 1,600 of these light curves to extract information about ...