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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This year NASA unveiled new discoveries beyond our solar system, the count has surpassed 6,000, with several thousands more ...

One of the primary goals of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is to detect atmospheres around exoplanets, to try to suss ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered PSR J2322-2650b, a bizarre lemon-shaped exoplanet with a carbon-rich ...

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 ...