Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets — worlds beyond our solar system. Most of them are in single-star systems, ...

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(THE CONVERSATION) A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around another star, they had found evidence for an unexpected atmospheric gas. On Earth, ...

The image behind the graph is an illustration of a hycean planet orbiting a red dwarf star ... A 'HYCEAN WORLD' About 5,800 planets beyond our solar system, called exoplanets, have been discovered ...

Scientists know of over a dozen planets that orbit twin stars like the fictional “Star Wars” desert planet Tatooine.

The Webb telescope has spotted exoplanets circling white dwarf stars, proving that planets can survive their star’s violent ...

With a lot of talk about space recently, have you ever wondered which are the hottest planets in the solar system? You'd think ... in Venus' atmosphere traps all the sunlight that manages to ...

The morning of April 24 will give rise to a striking mini-planetary parade, as Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Neptune, and Earth's ...

Who knew that magnetic fields could be so useful? Astronomers are able to use magnetic fields to map our environment within ...

The Italian Space Agency has picked European company Blue Skies Space to build a fleet of satellites around the moon to map ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new ... Webb Telescope Captures Its ...