We’ve learned that Mars is the only planet in our solar system that could be habitable, thanks to its temperature and the ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

NASA, Johns Hopkins University Although intense light emitting from distant stars ... utilize these insights to “understand our own solar system, life, and ourselves in the comparison to other ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering mystery about how distant planets form, researchers said.

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access the inner planets. Now the results are in, and we can do interesting ...

Astronomers have recently unveiled an extraordinary discovery in the cosmos: a new exoplanet named Enaiposha, located 47 light-years from our solar system. Initially thought to be a mini-Neptune, this ...

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James Webb Space Telescope has captured four of them in the stellar system HR ...

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...

The PRIME telescope, operated by Osaka University and others in South Africa, which can potentially study the Milky Way's ...

Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17 ... a star about 250 light years away. These two exoplanets, a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune ...