Astronomers are uncovering distant worlds beyond our solar system using ingenious indirect methods like observing stellar ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered PSR J2322-2650b, a bizarre lemon-shaped exoplanet with a carbon-rich ...

An international team of astronomers released the largest-ever compilation of exoplanet-detecting observations made using a technique called the radial velocity method. They demonstrated how these ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected two alien planets orbiting white dwarfs, the collapsed husks of once-mighty stars. The discovery offers a hint of what our solar system will look like after ...

FORT DAVIS, Texas — University of Texas at Austin astronomer and Hubble Fellow Seth Redfield has used the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) at McDonald Observatory to make the first ground-based detection ...

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Across the billions of stars and galaxies in the universe, Earth remains the only known planet to host life. Yet, the search for other potentially habitable worlds drives scientists to develop ...

"We were excited when we realized." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have ...

Astronomers have just unveiled a groundbreaking discovery that could significantly impact the search for life beyond our solar system. The discovery involves the detection of Kepler-725c, a ...

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