The hunt is on for terrestrial exoplanets in habitable zones, and some of the most promising candidates were discovered ...

The James Webb Space Telescope finds WASP-121b leaking two long helium tails, offering new insight into atmospheric escape on hot Jupiter exoplanets ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover that a distant "hot Jupiter" planet has two ...

Astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS, and the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets (IREx) at the University of Montreal ...

Earth's climate has swung between ice ages and warmer periods for millions of years, driven by subtle changes in our planet's ...

The Chandra X-ray Telescope is investigating the habitability of exoplanets. NASA explains. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...

Our Sun is about halfway through its life, which means Earth is as well. After a star exhausts its hydrogen nuclear fuel, its ...

Aliens might be transmitting communications signals to each other across exoplanets, some astronomers think. Since these ...

The Wide Field Camera 3 instrument gives the telescope the ability to capture a panchromatic view of objects flying through ...

NASA has completed assembly of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a powerful 2.4-meter infrared observatory designed to ...

More research is needed before scientists can determine whether the recently observed methane signatures point to the presence of an atmosphere or are simply the result of contamination from the host ...

Researchers studied the data closely and suggested a few possible ideas about the planet’s atmosphere and surface.