In truth, the extrasolar planet, or " exoplanet ," should be a bare husk of rock due to its proximity to the star TIC ...
Astronomers using the JWST have discovered tiny stars may be better suited at birthing small, rocky planets with atmospheres ...
Gas bubbling up from a lava-covered surface on the exoplanet 55 Cancri e may feed an atmosphere rich in carbon dioxide or ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was built to 'see back in time', up to a whopping 13.5 billion years ago – but its latest ...
This exoplanet receives 1.6 times the solar energy as Earth and about 85% of what Venus gets. The teams behind this discovery ...
NASA suspects our galaxy may teem with trillions of planets. Yet even with the powerful James Webb Space Telescope, it's ...
Scientists at the University of Warwick say they have been part of an international team to discover a new new habitable ...
Astronomers may have finally figured out why a distant exoplanet with the density of a microwaved marshmallow has such a fluffy atmosphere. The planet, named WASP-107 b, is a gas giant situated around ...
A lot of people are focused on signs of alien life, but the space telescope will have a lot to say about exoplanet geology and formation.
The small Jupiter -sized star is called "SPECULOOS-3," named after the Search for Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOl Stars research ...
Planet hunters: David Charbonneau and Sara Seager share the $1m prize for their work characterizing the atmospheres of ...
Earth and most of the other planets — including Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune — also spin counterclockwise, but ...