The James Webb and Very Large telescopes spotted a free-floating planet accreting material at a record rate, displaying ...

An international team of astronomers has identified a rare, potentially habitable super-Earth just 19.5 light-years from ...

Scientists used the James Webb Space Telescope to check if another Earth-sized planet orbits Proxima Centauri, our nearest star.

What: Astronomers using JWST and ALMA have captured the earliest known stage of planet formation around the protostar ...

A giant exoplanet orbiting a nearby dwarf star has been found in an ideal location for next-generation telescopes to search for potential signs of life. The discovery of a potential “super-Earth” loca ...

What's the best way to reveal what an exoplanet is made of? Wait for it to get gravitationally shredded and engulfed by its ...

A new study using data from the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea serves up the closest-ever view of a planet-forming disk ...

Some of the most promising places to look for extraterrestrials have remained, so far, mostly hidden from astronomers. Now a game-changing instrument called NIRPS (Near-Infrared Planet Searcher) is ...

"The formation of planetary systems is not exclusive to stars but might also work around lonely starless worlds." Our parochial view of planets orbiting a central star — so familiar because it is the ...

For the first time, a planet has been discovered orbiting a white dwarf, also known as a dead star. This exoplanet, a planet outside of our solar system, is the size of Jupiter and it's known as WD ...