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 ...

Astronomers have captured the most dramatic view yet of a planet losing its atmosphere, watching the ultra-hot gas giant WASP ...

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

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

Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four ...

It was more than 30 years ago when the first ever exoplanet was discovered. Since then, astronomers have discovered more than ...

One of the main questions in exoplanet science concerns M dwarfs (red dwarfs) and the habitability of exoplanets that orbit ...

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

How can magnetic fields help determine the habitability of exoplanets? This is what a recent study published in Nature ...

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

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