An international team of astronomers has figured out that a famous brown dwarf is actually a pair of tight-knit brown dwarfs, weighing about 38 and 34 times the mass of Jupiter, that whip around each ...

A new analysis of a peculiar metallic cloud surrounding the exoplanet WASP-49 b provides further evidence that it may have ...

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

Long-term research program includes building Moon bases, finding habitable exoplanets, and probing 'space-time ripples' ...

The first “failed star” ever discovered has been a weird outlier since it was discovered 20 years ago. New observations show ...

Scientists using the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope have been left in a state of shock after discovering a first of ...

It’s the ultimate game of find a needle in the haystack. One NASA scientist is betting on AI to help expedite the search ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope was used to spot a new kind of alien planet: a watery "steam world" with an atmosphere of hot ...

Using the dual perspectives of Hubble and New Horizons, scientists have gained new insights into Uranus' atmospheric ...

TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has been on the lookout for alien worlds since 2018. It has just hit the news ...

These extremely low density cotton candy exoplanets—known as super-puffs —are a big puzzle for astronomers trying to figure ...