European astronomers report the discovery of a second alien world in the TOI-1422 planetary system located some 500 light ...

No planets cooler than about 35.33 degrees Fahrenheit had ever been detected. An exoplanet discovered in 2020 contains the coldest temperatures ever measured on a planetary body, according to ...

What can star variability—changes in a star's brightness over time—teach astronomers about exoplanet habitability? This is ...

Astronomers have just discovered a new Earth-sized exoplanet around SPECULOOS-3, an 'ultracool dwarf' star as small as Jupiter, twice as cold as our Sun, and located 55 light-years from Earth. After ...

Astronomers have discovered a brand new cold "super Jupiter" exoplanet, marking the closest of its kind ever found to us. The new planet, named Eps Ind Ab, orbits a star called Epsilon Indi A, only ...

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 impossible.

Astronomers have observed the atmosphere of a hot and uniquely inflated exoplanet using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Astronomers from the University of Arizona, along with an international group ...

This illustration shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs –– objects bigger than gas-giant planets but too small to be proper stars. ESO/M. Kornmesser Astronomers have discovered a ...

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Scientists have detected the first direct evidence of a coronal mass ejection from a star beyond our Sun, specifically the M dwarf StKM1-1262. This ma ...