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

An exoplanet the size of Jupiter has long intrigued astronomers because of its scorching temperatures, screaming winds and sideways rain made of glass. Now, data from the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

SANTA CRUZ — Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed ...

Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system. In 1995, a gas giant named 51 Pegasi b, which orbits a star similar to Earth's sun, etched its name in history as the first exoplanet ever ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

How can Uranus teach us about exoplanets? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) hopes to ...

The year 2025 marked significant advancements in exoplanet science, revealing new discoveries and fresh perspectives on known ...

An ancient rocky world so close to its star that its surface is largely molten should have been stripped bare of gas long ago ...

Published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, two new studies present an in-depth analysis of the planet Beta Pictoris b's atmosphere using interferometry with the Very Large Telescope ...

As part of the Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics (Astro2020), the Panel on Exoplanets, Astrobiology, and the Solar System will identify and articulate the scientific themes that will define ...