NASA made a huge splash in September when it announced that its James Webb Space Telescope had spotted potential signs of ...
Scientists are one step closer to finding possible life on Planet K2-18b, which is twice as big as Earth and 120 light-years ...
Astronomers have detected the signal of a rainbow-like phenomenon known as the “glory effect” on a planet outside our solar ...
Around 280 light years away from Earth, the exoplanet WASP-43b orbits its star. Despite the enormous distance, astronomers ...
A discovery recently made by a few astronomers could soon prove to be the biggest one ever. We might be a few months from ...
An international team of researchers, including The Open University’s (OU) Joanna Barstow, have successfully used NASA’s JWST ...
Similar to Earth but incapable of sustaining life. Despite surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead, lava-spewing ...
From the brightness variations of its host star, an exoplanet’s size and other properties can be determined. In order to ...
The NASA James Webb Space Telescope has provided astronomers with an unprecedented glimpse of a distant exoplanet, shedding ...
Some stars erupt with 'superflares' 10,000 times as powerful as solar flares from the sun. A team of "stellar detectives" are ...
Astronomers have spotted what they believe to be a rainbow-like phenomenon occurring on a planet outside our solar system for the first time, and it could reveal new insights about alien worlds.