A team of astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to capture new images of a "super-Jupiter" planet – the closest planet of its huge size that scientists have found. The planet is a ...

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SCIENTISTS have stumbled across a new Super-Earth that orbits inside its star’s habitable zone with a new alien-hunting tool.

Astrophysicists have gained precious new insights into how distant exoplanets form and what their atmospheres can look like, ...

New images from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal the dazzling auroras of Jupiter, shining hundreds of times brighter than those on Earth. The breathtaking displays, captured on Christmas Day 2023 ...

A giant conundrum has been found orbiting a teeny tiny red dwarf star just a fifth of the size of the Sun. Such small stars ...

The new calculations, described in a paper published Tuesday (May 20) in the journal Nature Astronomy, suggest that just 3.8 ...

The researchers behind the new work find indications that there's a significant population of rocky super-Earths ... known of a star with a planet that took as long as Jupiter to orbit, and ...

New images from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal the dazzling auroras of Jupiter, shining hundreds of times brighter than those on Earth. The breathtaking displays, captured on Christmas Day ...