In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

Surprised astronomers just discovered a world that blurs the line between planet and stellar remnant, hiding in a system ...

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

Discovered in 2011 by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, TrEs-2b absorbs 99% of the light it is struck with and reflects only 1%, ...

A new discovery, made using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), may just be the weirdest exoplanet yet, possessing an ...

The James Webb Space Telescope detected an atmosphere on a lava-covered exoplanet, evidence that small planets close to stars ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed astonishing new details about an already known but highly unusual ...

A distant world with carbon in its atmosphere and extraordinarily high temperatures is unlike any other planet we’ve seen, ...

A massive collision between two asteroid-sized bodies around a nearby star offers a rare look at the violent process of ...

Space is full of unsolved mysteries, and a team using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have recently turned up a doozy.

Astronomers have discovered a bizarre carbon-rich planet orbiting a neutron star, PSR J2322-2650b, with soot clouds and ...

In astronomy, there is a concept called "degeneracy." It has nothing to do with delinquent people, but instead is used to ...