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

Discovered in 2011 by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, TrEs-2b absorbs 99% of the light it is struck with and reflects only 1%, ...

What planet is most like Earth? Reseachers have identified several exoplanets similar to our planet, but none that are an ...

Worlds upon worlds await us in the cosmos and we’re finding more all the time. Before 1992, we weren’t even completely certain planets existed outside of our solar system. Now, astronomers are finding ...

Earth exoplanets orbiting M-dwarf stars, identifying specific candidates that may have retained detectable atmospheres.

The year 2025 marked significant advancements in exoplanet science, revealing new discoveries and fresh perspectives on known ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has recently discovered a rare exoplanet, whose composition has baffled scientists ...

In astronomy, there is a concept called "degeneracy." It has nothing to do with delinquent people, but instead is used to describe data that could be interpreted multiple ways. In some cases, that ...

Of all the circumstances a planet could form, Earth followed just the right recipe for life to proliferate. Were the conditions different, our home could have been a barren rocky world like Mars, or a ...

An "extra exceptional" Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns, has been discovered. Astronomers say the "huge" new world is six times the size of Jupiter despite only forming 50 million years ...