Using radial velocity measurements, an international team of astronomers has identified a second planet orbiting a nearby M-dwarf star known as Gliese 536. The newfound alien world turns out to be at ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

The exoplanet is the first confirmed detection of a planet in a multi-ringed protoplanetary disk, a disk that contains ...

The indeterminate nature of the team's results means that JWST is far from finished with TRAPPIST-1e. The researchers hope to ...

Astronomers have taken a huge leap towards discovering habitable worlds, and the world now eagerly anticipates a rocky planet ...

Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time, ...

When the JWST finally began its long-awaited science operations in July 2022, there was a long list of targets awaiting its ...

This special phenomenon of “tidal locking” results in the incredible extreme temperature differences between day and night on WASP-121b. The side facing the star, known as the “day side,” experiences ...

The exoplanet was discovered during preliminary observations from the James Webb Space Telescope. Experts say they could soon ...

A giant planet may be orbiting the nearest Sun-like star to Earth, and the discovery is sparking excitement across the astronomy world. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers have detected ...

Science advances through data that don't fit our current understanding. At least that was Thomas Kuhn's theory in his famous On the Structure of Scientific Revolutions. So scientists should welcome ...