One thing we've learned in recent decades is that exoplanets are surprisingly common. So far, we've confirmed nearly 6,000 ...
When we think of exoplanets that may be able to support life, we home in on the habitable zone. A habitable zone is a region ...
The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming ...
Exoplanets can be quite different from Earth, but occasionally researchers find one that gives a sneak peak into what the ...
Recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggests that a planet orbiting a small, red star 35 light years away ...
For years, scientists have speculated about the nature of water on exoplanets, especially on super-Earths and sub-Neptunes — ...
Scientists have not yet found direct evidence of a moon outside our solar system -- but they just found a hint of a hellish ...
Explore some of these distant worlds and strange worlds with us, how they compare to our own solar system planets, and the ways in which we search for them. We can even use Minecraft to simulate ...
"The Hubble and Webb observations together provide so much more detail that they are telling us something completely new ...
Astronomers used Uranus as a proxy for similar planets beyond our solar system, known as exoplanets, comparing high-resolution images from Hubble to the more-distant view from New Horizons.
Webb's high-resolution instruments uncover distant objects, enabling studies of early stars, galaxies, and habitable ...