How light is light? The James Webb Space Telescope has just been able to directly image a planet so light and faint that, in ...

Detecting exoplanets is one thing, but imaging them is another thing entirely. Astronomers can detect them by the way they ...

For the first time in its four-year operational history, the James Webb Space Telescope has identified an exoplanet not ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

Astronomers confirm TOI-5573 b, a rare, miniature Saturn-like planet orbiting a small star, challenging theories of planetary ...

Orbiting its star in an elliptical path at less than half the distance between Earth and the Sun, this exoplanet offers a ...

Astronomers in Poland have discovered a nearby exoplanet more than 11 times the mass of Jupiter, comfortably putting it in the pantheon of the most massive known worlds. The object is a cold super ...

A new study lends support to the notion that JuMBOs (Jupiter-mass binary objects) discovered by the James Webb Space ...

'Everything about Jupiter is extreme:' NASA learns more about gas giant, its volcanic moon NASA scientists have sought to understand Jupiter, the gas giant whose mass is more than the rest of the ...