A collision between two asteroids 20 years ago occurred in Beta Pictoris star system, around 63 light-years from Earth, ...
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.
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of astronomers, including MPIA scientists, studied the properties of a ...
Astronomers using the JWST have discovered tiny stars may be better suited at birthing small, rocky planets with atmospheres ...
Planets form in disks of gas and dust, orbiting young stars. The MIRI Mid-INfrared Disk Survey (MINDS), led by Thomas Henning ...
The red dwarf is 600 light-years away and gives astronomers a front-row view to the environments in which rocky planets like ...
Some 1,800 light-years away from Earth, an extraordinary exoplanet has braved all odds to survive the extreme radiation ...
The water vapor was detected after three years of observing GJ 9827d and could be an example of planets with water-rich ...
An international team of astronomers has performed follow-up observations of a nearby alien world known as TOI-1685 b.
Researchers using global robotic telescopes discovered an Earth-sized planet, SPECULOOS-3 b, orbiting an ultra-cool red dwarf ...
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, R. Crawford (STScI), CC BY 4.0 For the first time, astronomers have discovered an atmosphere surrounding a rocky exoplanet—but it isn’t the atmosphere that the planet started ...
New software let scientists re-examine old radar images, providing some of the strongest evidence yet that volcanoes continue to reshape the hellish planet.