A star and its planets form when a cloud of gas and dust collapses in on itself somewhere in space. The cloud then forms a ...

The gas giant Beta Pictoris b, about 63 light-years away, has the mass of 10 Jupiters and a magnetic field thousands of times as strong as Earth’s.

Astronomers have detected radio waves coming directly from an exoplanet for the first time. The signal from Beta Pictoris b could reveal secrets about its powerful magnetic field and auroras.

There's no proof of other life beyond Earth yet, but scientists are constantly looking out and listening for signs that we're not actually alone in the Universe.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has opened many wonders of the cosmos to scientists since it began science operations a ...

That's one big baby.

Exoplanet TOI 1227 b is being bombarded by x-rays from its host red dwarf star, causing it to “shrink from the size of ...

Astronomers have discovered the youngest exoplanet yet 450 light-years away from Earth. Credit: W. M. Keck Observatory / Adam ...

How can astronomers predict the weather on exoplanets? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy and Astrophysics ...

For students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, fog is an all-too-familiar dynamic that shrouds and ebbs from campus over the course of a day. But while working toward his Ph.D. in astronomy ...

A rocky exoplanet outside the Earth's solar system may have an atmosphere, according to new evidence gathered by NASA researchers. The exoplanet, known as super-Earth TOI-561b, was discovered in 2020, ...

Thousands of planets have been discovered beyond our solar system, offering clues to where life might thrive and whether ...