In astronomy, there is a concept called "degeneracy." It has nothing to do with delinquent people, but instead is used to ...

NASA has confirmed thousands of exoplanets beyond our solar system - a number that continues to grow as new discoveries are ...

Astronomers are scratching their heads at the odd chemistry, which hints at soot clouds and possibly diamond formation deep ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a bizarre-looking exoplanet that defies explanation ...

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

A new discovery, made using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), may just be the weirdest exoplanet yet, possessing an ...

What types of exoplanets orbit pulsars? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to ...

NASA ’s James Webb Space Telescope has found the strongest evidence yet that a small, rocky planet outside our solar system ...

Since the 1990s, humanity has discovered some truly bizarre exoplanets. Very hot, very big, orbiting multiple stars, or at a ...

An ultra-hot rocky exoplanet may be wrapped in a dense atmosphere, defying expectations about what small planets can sustain.

There is a new method to detect and map spots on stars by "using observations from NASA missions of orbiting planets." ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet beyond the solar system that orbits its twin parent stars closer than any ever seen ...