Even JWST can’t separate these tiny planets from their host stars – as they orbit their stars too closely. But there is a way ...

In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...

An international team of astronomers has reported the detection of a new super-Jupiter exoplanet as part of the Next ...

Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to discover new worlds goes on, we're steadily learning more about the ...

it's something to consider when looking at distant planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets. Exoplanets can be quite different from Earth, with different sizes, densities, and orbits ...

“It helps build on the story that some of these moons at Uranus may be really interesting — that there may be several ocean worlds around one of the most distant planets in our solar ...

The Kepler-186 system is home to Kepler-186f, the first validated Earth-size planet orbiting a distant star in the habitable zone -- a range of distances from a star where liquid water might pool ...

Space telescope aims to confirm major finding on distant planet K2-18b World is more than eight times the mass of Earth and 120 light-years away Astronomers could finally show that alien life does ...

The tantalising prospect that we might not be alone in the universe is a step closer to reality thanks to the discovery of a possible sign of life on a distant planet. Nasa's James Webb Space ...

Computer simulations suggest that there is an undiscovered Earth-like planet lurking in the distant ... [+] Kuiper Belt, well past the orbit of Neptune (artistic illustration). There may be an ...

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