Detecting exoplanets is one thing, but imaging them is another thing entirely. Astronomers can detect them by the way they ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

Researchers for NASA have identified a new planet outside of our solar system, also known as an exoplanet.Officials said they ...

Chile's Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which boasts the world's largest digital camera, has begun displaying its first images of ...

This explorer spacecraft is heading to a rare asteroid with a naked metal core. It could hold clues to how Earth began ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered an exoplanet using the direct-imaging technique. The host star's light was ...

James Webb’s mid-infrared vision has likely captured a frigid, Saturn-mass planet shaping the dusty rings around the nearby ...

In an unprecedented discovery, astronomers have detected a rare exoplanet located at the very edge of the Milky Way galaxy, ...

What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a study recently posted to the arXiv preprint server hopes to ...

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