In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has turned up a world that looks more like a squeezed citrus fruit than a planet, a distorted ...

Discovered in 2011 by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, TrEs-2b absorbs 99% of the light it is struck with and reflects only 1%, ...

Earth exoplanets orbiting M-dwarf stars, identifying specific candidates that may have retained detectable atmospheres.

The way we look at exoplanets is changing. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new method of studying alien planets might allow ...

In astronomy, there is a concept called "degeneracy." It has nothing to do with delinquent people, but instead is used to ...

There are hundreds of millions of planets around other stars in our Milky Way galaxy that may be habitable, argues a new research paper. These exoplanets (planets orbiting a star other than our sun) ...

At 93 billion light years across, our observable universe seems full of unfathomable possibility. On Tuesday, the Nobel Prize Committee awarded the physics prize to three researchers whose scientific ...

The ingredients for life are spread throughout the universe. While Earth is the only known place in the universe with life, detecting life beyond Earth is a major goal of modern astronomy and ...

In another exoplanetary first, the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile’s Atacama Desert has captured an image of two worlds orbiting a younger version of the Sun. The ...

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Even though the ingredients for life have been confirmed to be practically everywhere we look, the only world where we've definitively confirmed its existence is Earth. Exoplanet science has exploded ...