However, astronomers in Hawaii just spotted a pair of exciting discoveries — a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf — using Japan ...

That’s why scientists designed an instrument called coronagraph in the early 1930s. Coronagraph, as NASA describes, is ...

Our Sun is about halfway through its life, which means Earth is as well. After a star exhausts its hydrogen nuclear fuel, its ...

For the first time, scientists have continuously monitored a planet's escaping atmosphere over a complete orbit, revealing ...

Astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS, and the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets (IREx) at the University of Montreal ...

Japan's Subaru Telescope’s OASIS survey directly imaged a massive exoplanet and a brown dwarf, highlighting new opportunities for studying distant planetary systems.

"We reported hints of methane, but the question is, 'is the methane attributable to molecules in the atmosphere of the planet ...

The first planet to be discovered inside the habitable zone of a Sun-like star. Its name is Kepler 22-b. When a planet is located within a star's habitable zone, it means that there is a chance that ...

A new study published in Nature Communications has revealed an unprecedented discovery about the exoplanet WASP-121 b, ...

More studies are needed to determine whether TRAPPIST-1e has an atmosphere at all, or the hints of methane are linked to the ...

Of the seven Earth-sized worlds orbiting the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, one planet in particular has attracted the attention ...

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope discover an exoplanet and a brown dwarf, offering new insights and a key target for NASA’s upcoming Roman Telescope ...