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

A new study compares young and old exoplanets to uncover how worlds shrink, migrate and evolve over time — offering insights ...

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...

"As the large and bright discs are the easiest to observe, our previous view of the birth site of planets was biased." ...

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

So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...

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

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering mystery about how distant planets form, researchers said.

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 ...

But finding such extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, is not easy — even ... that can image objects much deeper in space. The first pictures of Earthlike worlds may come from enormous ground ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has achieved a groundbreaking feat by directly observing carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmospheres of exoplanets for the very first time. Announced by NASA on March ...

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