Researchers have come up with a color-coded key that could prove crucial in detecting signs of life on exoplanet clouds.

The James Webb Space Telescope has just achieved an unprecedented feat by mapping for the first time the atmosphere of a ...

What: New JWST observations probe the possible atmosphere of TRAPPIST-1 e, an Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of a ...

Researchers at Cornell University have developed the first-ever reflectance spectra — essentially a color-coded key — of the ...

Several years ago, astronomers pointed a telescope at another star and discovered something remarkable: seven planets, each one about the same size as Earth. The planets were quite close to their ...

Learn how exoplanets are discovered, what makes planets beyond our solar system unique, and how they drive the ongoing search ...

Scientists have detected the first direct evidence of a coronal mass ejection from a star beyond our Sun, specifically the M ...

A team of scientists is developing a "quantum-sensitive" device that could capture direct images of Earth-like exoplanets — something astronomers tend to consider so difficult it's nearly impossible.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has taken its first direct images of a planet orbiting a distant star. The planet, known as HIP 65426 b, is a gas giant several times more massive than Jupiter, ...

A University of Iowa researcher has been awarded funding from NASA to create an interstellar map that could lead to more accurate observations of planets located outside our solar system — known as ...