One of the main questions in exoplanet science concerns M dwarfs (red dwarfs) and the habitability of exoplanets that orbit ...

In a zesty new discovery, scientists have unearthed a strange lemon-shaped exoplanet. It is unlike one we have seen before, ...

Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...

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

Astronomers from the University of Geneva, working with colleagues in Canada and the United States, have captured the ...

Webb telescope discovered a bizarre exoplanet with carbon atmosphere, no hydrogen, orbiting a super-dense spinning star.

JWST observations of the ultra-hot super-Earth exoplanet TOI-561 b provide the strongest evidence to date for an atmosphere surrounding a rocky planet beyond our Solar System.

An exosyzygy – an alignment of three celestial objects around another star – is predicted to happen later this year, but it ...

James Webb observations show TOI-561b, an ultra-hot rocky exoplanet, has a thick atmosphere that redistributes heat.

Exoplanets come up a lot these days, usually in headlines about distant stars, strange atmospheres, or the possibility of ...

The distant planet appears to be in the shape of a lemon as the pulsar's intense gravity stretches the planet.

No planets cooler than about 35.33 degrees Fahrenheit had ever been detected. An exoplanet discovered in 2020 contains the coldest temperatures ever measured on a planetary body, according to ...