Do you sleep with the lights on? If the thought of pitch-black darkness and eternal night makes you uneasy, TrES-2b might be the last place you'd want to visit. This alien world is so incredibly ...

The latest cosmic puzzle for scientists comes from the constellation Leo, roughly 240 lightyears from Earth. Astronomers, ...

Tracking exoplanets via orbital mechanics isn't easy. Plenty of variables could affect how a planet moves around its star, and determining which ones affect any given exoplanet requires a lot of ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, they said, had detected signs of a liquid water ocean — and possibly life — on the exoplanet K2-18b, a temperate sub-Neptune world located about 124 light ...

A team of scientists is developing a "quantum-sensitive" device that could capture direct images of Earth-like exoplanets — something astronomers tend to consider so difficult it's nearly ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A Saturn-sized exoplanet, TOI-5573 b, has been detected orbiting an M-dwarf star about 606 light years away. With a mass of 0.35 M J and a radius of 0.87 R J, it ...

Oldest and coldest: JWST claims a first for exoplanet imaging Evidence of a planet in ν Octantis is not new, and the binary nature of the system is well established 7. However, Cheng and ...

In April, astronomers said they had detected a possible signature of life on the exoplanet K2-18b. Now, three independent analyses discount the evidence. An artist’s concept of the exoplanet K2 ...

Observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have provided new clues about how the exoplanet WASP-121b has formed and where it might have originated in the disc of gas and dust around its ...

Exoplanets are the celestial bodies orbiting stars other than our Sun. Their small size makes them difficult to detect from Earth, particularly as they appear much dimmer than their parent stars ...