Scientists using the James Webb telescope observed a distant exoplanet with an atmosphere of soot and diamonds, challenging ...

Scientists have discovered a rogue planet roaming the Milky Way after combining observations from Earth and a space telescope ...

While most planets that we are familiar with stick relatively close to their host star in a predictable orbit, some planets ...

For a telescope that spends much of its time listening to faint spectra, the James Webb Space Telescope has also learned how ...

Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...

A newly discovered exoplanet is rewriting the rules of what planets can be. Orbiting a city-sized neutron star, this ...

Very Large Telescope observations of a free-floating rogue planet shows that it is "eating up gas and dust from its ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured infant planets colliding around Fomalhaut, one of the brightest stars in the night ...

New research explains how dust links the formation, evolution, and fate of stars and planets, and why future telescopes are needed to observe these processes in detail ...

Astronomers believe the free-floating planet is around 22 percent the mass of Jupiter and lies 3,000 parsecs from the Milky ...

Astronomers photographed a baby planet, WISPIT 2b, during its formation process within a dusty ring around its star system.

One of the primary goals of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is to detect atmospheres around exoplanets, to try to suss out whether or not they could potentially support life. But, in order to do ...