"We can see, for the first time, rings of dust surrounding protoplanets made visible by the bright starlight reflecting off ...

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

New findings from the ALMA telescope have revealed that planets are born in much smaller protoplanetary disks than ...

Four small, newly discovered worlds are less than six light-years away from Earth, and their discovery reinforces a ...

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has achieved a groundbreaking feat by directly observing carbon dioxide (CO2) in the ...

For centuries, planets beyond our solar system—called exoplanets—existed only in theory and science fiction. It seemed nearly impossible to detect planets light-years away, since the ...

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