Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar ...

This discovery by Webb provides strong evidence that the giant planets in HR 8799 formed through core accretion, much like ...

An international team of astronomers reports the detection of two new brown dwarfs orbiting distant stars using NASA's ...

Earth exoplanets orbiting the closest single-star system to us, called Barnard's Star. As detailed in a new paper published ...

Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...

Webb’s latest discovery has opened a thrilling new chapter in exoplanet research by capturing the first-ever direct images of ...

Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery — and some ...

A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system ...