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

Surprised astronomers just discovered a world that blurs the line between planet and stellar remnant, hiding in a system ...

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Scientists using the James Webb telescope observed a distant exoplanet with an atmosphere of soot and diamonds, challenging ...

A massive collision between two asteroid-sized bodies around a nearby star offers a rare look at the violent process of ...

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

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

Space is full of unsolved mysteries, and a team using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have recently turned up a doozy.

Astronomers have discovered a bizarre carbon-rich planet orbiting a neutron star, PSR J2322-2650b, with soot clouds and ...

This year NASA unveiled new discoveries beyond our solar system, the count has surpassed 6,000, with several thousands more ...

A distant world with carbon in its atmosphere and extraordinarily high temperatures is unlike any other planet we’ve seen, ...

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