In truth, the extrasolar planet, or " exoplanet ," should be a bare husk of rock due to its proximity to the star TIC ...
Gliese 12 b is a rocky planet just 40 light-years away from our own. It orbits around a star called Gliese 12, a cool red ...
An international team of astronomers has performed follow-up observations of a nearby alien world known as TOI-1685 b.
Astronomers using the JWST have discovered tiny stars may be better suited at birthing small, rocky planets with atmospheres ...
Gas bubbling up from a lava-covered surface on the exoplanet 55 Cancri e may feed an atmosphere rich in carbon dioxide or ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was built to 'see back in time', up to a whopping 13.5 billion years ago – but its latest ...
This exoplanet receives 1.6 times the solar energy as Earth and about 85% of what Venus gets. The teams behind this discovery ...
NASA suspects our galaxy may teem with trillions of planets. Yet even with the powerful James Webb Space Telescope, it's ...
Scientists at the University of Warwick say they have been part of an international team to discover a new new habitable ...
A lot of people are focused on signs of alien life, but the space telescope will have a lot to say about exoplanet geology and formation.
Planets form in disks of gas and dust, orbiting young stars. The MIRI Mid-INfrared Disk Survey (MINDS), led by Thomas Henning ...
Earth and most of the other planets — including Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune — also spin counterclockwise, but ...