An exoplanet is any planet beyond our solar system. Most of them orbit other stars, but some free-floating exoplanets, called ...

How light is light? The James Webb Space Telescope has just been able to directly image a planet so light and faint that, in ...

So-called M dwarfs are the most common stars in the Milky Way. A research team has determined around which of them Earth-like ...

Studies of 15 M-type stars have revealed new insights into the potential presence of exoplanets. A new study led by ...

A unique new material that shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled could help enable the ultra-stable space telescopes ...

Artist's impression of Planet Nine – a suspected “wide-orbit” planet – with the Sun in the distance; Neptune's orbit is shown ...

KiDS J0842+0059 lies around 3 billion light-years away from Earth. It holds a stellar mass almost 100 billion times that of ...