The newly discovered exoplanet HD 135344 Ab can be seen as a yellow dot on the right side of the image. It was measured in 2019 (2x), 2021, and 2022. The empty purple circle with the star in the ...

Scientists spotted the heavy water (which we'll get into in just a moment) in the planet-forming disk of gas and dust around ...

The celestial body is the youngest transiting planet found to date. Madyson Barber, a grad student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was researching young transiting systems in space ...

Astronomers detected a bright signal, coming from deep inside a dust disc, that is likely newborn planet HD 135344B still ...

Webb just spotted a carbon-rich moon factory 625 light-years away, revealing how moons like ours may have first taken shape.

A low-density, puffy planet orbiting relatively far from a young star in a nearly perpendicular orbit. What's going on?

Luke found life on Tatooine to be boring, but he should be glad, because as we have seen, binary stars have the potential to play all kinds of havoc on their orbiting circumbinary planets. A ...

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 ...

There might be a huge planet lurking near one of the closest stars to Earth. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has imaged a possible planet near Alpha Centauri A, a sun-like star that forms ...

Planets do not emit visible light like stars; they shine in the sky because they reflect sunlight. Exoplanets too reflect ...

An artist's impression of the young star bombarding its planet with energetic flares. Janine Fohlmeister (Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam) A young, energetic star has had just about enough ...