The NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, providing the most detailed images and ...

Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

There's nothing to get a scientist's heart pumping like a good, old-fashioned statistical debate. When it comes to topics ...

Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme. At least, that's what astronomers found when ...

The discovery of the exoplanet, a super-Earth called Kepler-735c, is all down to something called transit timing variations, ...

A unique gas giant has been confirmed through global teamwork, offering insights into planetary formation and future ...

Unlike Earth, the exoplanet is tidally locked, meaning that the same side constantly faces its host star, which is a small red dwarf in the Crater constellation. Despite these differences, LP 791 ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of an exoplanet for the first time since it began science operations ...

The search for life beyond our planet continues, and one of the most underappreciated tools in an astrobiologist's toolkit is ...

Kepler-1658b, orbiting with a period of just 3.8 days, was the first exoplanet candidate discovered by the Kepler space telescope in 2009. In 2019, astrophysicist Ashley Chontos used sound waves ...