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

How can astronomers develop better methods for blocking the intense starlight of an exoplanetary system and reveal the exoplanets hiding underneath the glare? This is what a recent study published in ...

Watch how JW Telescope detects temperature on Trappist 1 b. Credit: Space.com | animation courtesy: ESO/L. Calçada / Space ...

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

Astronomers have recently unlocked a new frontier in exoplanet exploration, generating the first 3D map of a distant world. This groundbreaking study, published inNature Astronomy, takes us beyond the ...

"Abnormal, chaotic and strange" are just a few adjectives astronomers are using to describe a perplexing planetary system 60 light-years from Earth. And for one of the two exoplanets orbiting the ...

Stronger links between researchers who work on Earth’s and other planets’ atmospheres, and between the experimental, modelling and observational communities, will help to interpret the astronomical ...

The team of astronomers behind the find suggested it could help us better understand planet and moon formation in our solar system and beyond the Milky Way. The team was able to make the first-ever ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured evidence of a planet beyond the solar system for the first time since its launch in 2021. The exoplanet, a planet beyond our solar system, has been ...

These days, researchers commonly discover exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. But sometimes there’s a special discovery, like an exoplanet right in our backyard — and that’s the case with ...