Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

Scientists have discovered over 6,000 planets that orbit stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets. More than half of ...

That would make it thousands of times more massive than any moon orbiting a solar system plane  — so massive it could make ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

NASA’s AI, ExoMiner++, is scanning TESS data, flagging 7,000 potential exoplanets. Open-source and powerful, it separates ...

Astronomers have captured the most dramatic view yet of a planet losing its atmosphere, watching the ultra-hot gas giant WASP ...

Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the ...

This artist's impression shows the star TRAPPIST-1 with two planets transiting across it. ExoMiner++, a recently updated open ...

A layer of molten rock deep inside some rocky planets may be doing more than shaping their interiors. New research points to ...

The University of Arizona will serve as mission control for a newly launched space telescope designed to study distant ...

In astronomy, an occultation is when a celestial body or object — like the moon or a planet — passes in front of a distant ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...