What can lava planets, rocky exoplanets that are tidally locked and orbit so close to their stars that the intense heat melts ...

An international team led by the Universities of Geneva (UNIGE) and Montreal published the first results today from the NIRPS ...

TOI-2109b, a massive gas giant in a death spiral, may plunge into its star, be torn apart by tidal forces, or transform into a super-Earth. Scientists are racing to predict its fate.

Espinoza is a leader in the new massive James Webb Space Telescope study of rocky worlds, specifically to find out if planets ...

Astronomers may have captured the rare moment of a planet forming around a young star, HD 135344B, 440 light-years away. Using the powerful ERIS instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, they spotted ...

Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet that may be habitable 35 light-years from Earth. Named L 98-59 f, it joins four ...

Earlier this year, astronomers reported possible evidence of life on another planet – but new observations from JWST suggest ...

A hidden exoplanet named Kepler-139f was discovered by the NASA scientists in the Kepler-139 star system. The uncovered exoplanet is a massive “super-Earth,” roughly twice the mass of Neptune and ...

The Very Large Telescope in Chile has found, for the first time, an infant planet nestled in spiral arms of dust around a ...

Scientists have confirmed a potentially habitable fifth planet in the nearby L 98-59 system, revealing a diverse collection ...

Using NASA's TESS space telescope, a team from Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets has detected a 'super-Earth' 35 light-years away that might be habitable.

A century-old hypothesis that Betelgeuse, the 10th brightest star in our night sky, is orbited by a very close companion star ...