A unique gas giant has been confirmed through global teamwork, offering insights into planetary formation and future ...

Last week the James Webb Space Telescope captured a direct image of what they believe to be a previously unknown exoplanet ...

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In a groundbreaking development, NASA has announced a new alloy that could be the key to unlocking ultra-stable space ...

James Webb’s mid-infrared vision has likely captured a frigid, Saturn-mass planet shaping the dusty rings around the nearby ...

With the aid of NASA's exoplanet-hunter TESS, citizen scientists have discovered a new gas giant that is cool, literally and figuratively.

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered an exoplanet using the direct-imaging technique. The host star's light was ...

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Astronomers have located a rare exoplanet on the edge of the Milky Way. The exoplanet, a gas giant named AT2021uey b, orbits a low-mass star and is located about 3,200 light-years away from Earth ...

The 1995 discovery of the first hot Jupiter (known as 51 Pegasi b) earned two Swiss astronomers the Nobel Prize in physics in 2019 and led to a wave of exoplanet discoveries that continues to the ...

Explore the UGC 10214, the Tadpole Galaxy, a faint, peculiar spiral galaxy in Draco with a dramatic tidal tail and active star formation — an elusive but rewarding target for deep-sky observers ...