The study leveraged the power of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, to try ...

New research using NASA's powerful JWST telescope has identified a planet 41 light years away which may have an atmosphere.

Recent astronomical discoveries have captivated the world with the revelation of a planet composed entirely of diamonds. This ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. There are currently more than 5,800 known planets beyond the solar system. Artist Martin Vargic ...

Huge, red "super-Jupiter" exoplanet orbits its star. Since astronomers first looked beyond the solar system three decades ago to discover extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, we've known that planets in ...

I looked through a high-power telescope for the first time in college. I couldn’t believe how many stars I saw. It’s hard to imagine all the planets orbiting all those stars. I talked about how we ...

NASA has announced that a sample collected on Mars by its Perseverance rover may contain evidence of ancient microbial life ...

Over the past decades, researchers thought Earth was created over a period of more than 100 million years. However, a new study from suggests that the creation of Earth was much more rapid, and that ...

Recently, there has been exciting news in the field of astronomy! Chinese scientists have discovered oxygen on exoplanets, which is incredibly thrilling. Humanity has always been curious about the ...

Why has silicon, one of the most common elements in the universe, gone largely undetected in the atmospheres of Jupiter, ...