In recent years, the number of known extrasolar planets (aka. exoplanets) has grown exponentially. To date, 5,799 exoplanets ...

Astronomers report the detection of a second exoplanet orbiting a G-type star known as TIC 393818343, located some 300 light ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly imaged its lowest mass extrasolar planet outside the solar system yet. The planet is also the closest to its star to be directly observed by the $10 billion ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have found a "first of its kind" world, an exoplanet that is twice the size ...

We’ve got a cosmic mystery on our hands. No one’s ever confirmed the existence of an ‘exomoon,’ which is a moon outside our ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a groundbreaking image of AF Leporis b, the lowest-mass exoplanet directly ...

While some scientists are using the James Webb Space Telescope, the leading observatory in the sky run by NASA and its European and Canadian counterparts, to study the planets' chemical compositions, ...

The Astronomy & Astrophysics Department welcomes postdoctoral scientist Emiel Por, who invents technologies that mold the ...

A steam-shrouded planet unlike any we’ve seen before has been detected nearly 100 light years away. The planet, known as GJ ...

How can Uranus teach us about exoplanets? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th annual meeting of the American ...

Astronomers at the University of Chicago have developed a more efficient technique to identify atmospheres on rocky ...