Astronomers may finally understand why planets orbiting two suns, the real-world equivalents of the "Star Wars" planet ...

The findings from Pandora will complement data from the James Webb Space Telescope to give astronomers more insight into ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected clouds made of silicates, similar to sand here on Earth, as well as water, ...

Computer simulations suggest NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory could detect Earth-like exomoons around gas giant exoplanets through reflected starlight and lunar eclipses.

How any Earth-sized exoplanets exist, and how do we find them? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In our solar system, Earth is one of but eight planets – nine, if you really want to count Pluto – and the only one remotely ...

Using HARPS and HARPS-N spectrographs, astronomers have observed a nearby K-type star designated HD 176986, known to host two ...

A distant star system with four super-sized gas giants has revealed a surprise. Thanks to JWST’s powerful vision, astronomers detected sulfur in their atmospheres — a chemical clue that they formed ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This artist’s concept depicts one possible appearance of the planet Kepler-452b, the first ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar system for the first time, scientists announced Monday. The gas giants are not ...

The team of astronomers behind the find suggested it could help us better understand planet and moon formation in our solar system and beyond the Milky Way. The team was able to make the first-ever ...

General relativity helps explain the lack of planets around tight binary stars by driving orbital resonances that eject or destroy close-in worlds. This process naturally creates a “desert” of ...