What can theoretical models teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets? This is what a recent funding ...

Astronomers have discovered an alien world that defies every planetary rule with its massive size, low density, and tilted ...

NASA launched an exoplanet-hunting experiment Oct. 1 despite the government shutdown. After the mission's end on Oct. 2, news ...

Using ESA's Gaia satellite and NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers from the Ege University in ...

Machine learning and advanced optics helped scientists correct distortions in Webb’s images, unlocking new potential to ...

The James Webb Telescope measured a potential moon-forming disk encircling an exoplanet, NASA recently announced, inviting researchers to observe and study moon formation as it happens, while ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope and other observatories suggests a supervolcanic exomoon may lurk around the giant ...

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

Earth’s turbulent atmosphere makes it hard to detect new planets from the ground. Astronomer Rebecca Jensen-Clem is working ...

Sir James Jeans, one of the world’s top mathematicians and an influential physicist and astronomer at the time, advanced his tidal hypothesis of planet formation in 1916. According to this theory, ...

WISPIT 2b was first detected using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope Spectro-Polarimetric ...