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

When the search for habitable exoplanets requires a 1,000 times more stable telescope than James Webb Space Telescope, even ...

Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...

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

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

A new gas giant world discovered by citizen scientists using data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS is cool, ...

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

TOI-6894 b, the largest exoplanet relative to its host star yet seen, doesn’t fit the most widely accepted formation model ...

What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a study recently posted to the arXiv preprint server hopes to ...

Named TOI-4465 b, the exoplanet caught astronomers' attention as it acts as a bridge between scorching gas giants and ice ...

The search for life beyond our planet continues, and one of the most underappreciated tools in an astrobiologist's toolkit is ...

This discovery marks a major breakthrough in astronomy and the ongoing search for planets outside our solar system.