Researchers have recently spotted a lemon-shaped exoplanet with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST.) The bizarre ...

Using the Webb telescope’s powerful Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, the team detected a sprawling helium cloud known as an exosphere. This exosphere stretches ...

Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave discuss an Earth-sized exoplanet, how ant colonies deal with disease and a possible link between volcanoes and the Black Death.

NASA has released its first image of a planet outside of our solar system. Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to take a direct image of the exoplanet, described as a "gas giant." NASA ...

Fresh JWST data and new models challenge methane hints on TRAPPIST-1e, showing the gas would be rare, unstable, and difficult ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS, the University of Warwick, and the Canary Islands ...

We sometimes throw around terms like "Earth-like" and "potentially habitable" when talking about exoplanets, but a newly discovered world just 40 light-years away earns the distinction. Two ...

How do the characteristics of Neptune-like exoplanets, also known as exo-Neptunes, differ from each other? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy and Astrophysics hopes to address as an ...

An international team has launched an ambitious program aimed at mapping exoplanets located around the "hot Neptune desert," a zone around the star where Neptune-type planets are largely ...