But a newfound planet exerts an unexpectedly strong—and ultimately self-destructive—influence on its star in return. The star HIP 67522 is slightly larger than our sun and shines roughly 408 ...

The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses. They definitely exist in East Lansing, Michigan.

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

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

Compact ruddy galaxies seen by the James Webb telescope confound astronomers. Having very little spin at birth may explain the galaxies’ small sizes.

Learn how a new discovery of a giant planet can help scientists refine their theories of how planets form.

Data from the TESS Mission indicates that a small red dwarf star is hosting a giant planet despite supposedly not having ...

Chinese astronomers have employed NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to observe an eclipsing binary of the ...

New measurements of the universe’s expansion using James Webb Space Telescope appear to resolve the Hubble constant conflict ...

Hycean worlds are also called ocean worlds. They're planets covered in oceans that also have thick hydrogen atmospheres.

In the newly released picture on its website nasa.gov as Astronomy Picture of the Day on June 17, it asked the question 'Can ...

NGC 4449 is a dwarf galaxy turned stellar powerhouse, dazzling astronomers with its explosive star-forming activity and rich ...