Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

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

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

The title character of “Snow White” (Rachel Zegler) connects with the animals while hiding in the woods. Disney Share Disney’s reimagining of the 1937 animated classic “Snow White ...

Rachel Zegler expressed what an “honor” it was to play Snow White in the new live-action film after calling the original 1937 film “weird.” “It was the honor of a lifetime. I think every ...

An artist’s rendering of Barnard’s Star, as seen from one of the newly discovered exoplanets orbiting it International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / P. Marenfeld under CC BY 4.0 ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have delved into the atmosphere of the scorching hot exoplanet LTT 9779 b. Officially named Cuancoá, this Neptune-sized exoplanet was ...

A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 light-years from Earth, putting them in contention as targets of missions for future human generations.

Astronomers have spotted two fascinating exoplanets around TOI-1453. One is a super-Earth, the other an ultra-light sub-Neptune, possibly cloaked in a thick atmosphere. (Artists view of TOI-1453.) ...

From there, we can try to get a sense of how weird our solar system really is—or how normal.” Artist conception of the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez Of ...

Normally, the Webb telescope only detects exoplanets by glimpsing them when they cross in front of their host star. This "transiting method" was how Webb indirectly detected CO2 in the atmosphere ...

From there, we can try to get a sense of how weird our solar system really is—or how normal." Astronomers have now discovered nearly 6,000 exoplanets, many of them massive — and none of them ...