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Exoplanet science has reached another milestone. NASA has announced that there are now 6,000 confirmed exoplanets. They vary widely in type and size, and in what types of stars they orbit. (Image ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have captured breathtakingly detailed images of two giant exoplanets orbiting a distant sun-like star. These observations revealed sand-like silicate ...

The Subaru Telescope has notched its first major discoveries with a one-two punch that captures both ends of the planetary spectrum, a massive exoplanet and a so-called failed star. Together, these ...

What can star variability—changes in a star's brightness over time—teach astronomers about exoplanet habitability? This is ...

Astronomers have observed the atmosphere of a hot and uniquely inflated exoplanet using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Astronomers from the University of Arizona, along with an international group ...

What can theoretical models teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets? This is what a recent funding grant from the National Science Foundation hopes to address as a Dr. Diego ...

Scientists have detected the first direct evidence of a coronal mass ejection from a star beyond our Sun, specifically the M dwarf StKM1-1262. This ma ...

Planet hunters have grown used to strange worlds, but a handful of discoveries now point to something even more radical: giant planets that loop around their stars on orbits so skewed they almost defy ...

Detecting exoplanets used to be so difficult that scientists spotted the first black hole, detected the leftover radiation from the Big Bang and took snapshots of countless distant galaxies before ...