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

Scientists using a NASA space telescope have discovered a tantalizing world. It's about the size of Earth, sits remarkably close to our solar system, and could be comfortable for life as we know it.

Astronomers have uncovered a potentially habitable Earth-sized exoplanet 300 light-years away from us. Out of the 2,681 exoplanets spotted by NASA's Kepler space telescope between 2009 and 2018, this ...

Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed as a ...

A new discovery, made using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), may just be the weirdest exoplanet yet, possessing an ...

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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Scientists have discovered that a distant "hot Jupiter" world has a planetary companion. The two ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered PSR J2322-2650b, a bizarre lemon-shaped exoplanet with a carbon-rich ...

One of the primary goals of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is to detect atmospheres around exoplanets, to try to suss ...

A recent study published in The Astronomical Journal uses data from the NASA K2 mission to examine the reasons behind why some exoplanets, specifically sub-Neptune exoplanets, are losing their ...

Determining the size of an Earth-size exoplanet by the amount of starlight it blocks hundreds of light-years away once was the realm of science fiction. Measuring the mass of such a small planet based ...