Of the seven Earth-sized worlds orbiting the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, one planet in particular has attracted the attention of scientists. This planet orbits the star within the "Goldilocks zone"—a ...

Astronomers have identified a colossal exomoon candidate roughly seven Neptune masses orbiting the giant world HD 206893 B — ...

Using direct imaging, astronomers have found a brown dwarf that could help test technology for taking snapshots of Earthlike ...

Using the JWST, an international team featuring UNIGE scientists has detected enormous clouds of helium streaming away from ...

"The James Webb Space Telescope has captured helium escape from this planet for the first time, and it is the most confident ...

A radio signal has been detected, pointing to the possible existence of a magnetic field on YZ Ceti b, an exoplanet 12 ...

Astronomers have confirmed that three Earth-sized planets are orbiting two stars in the same system — a first in the history ...

An international team, including astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Centre of Competence in ...

NASA is heading into the holidays with long-awaited good news about its next flagship observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman ...

European astronomers report the discovery of a second alien world in the TOI-1422 planetary system located some 500 light ...

Researchers have pinpointed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby M-dwarf star only 18 light-years away.

The “Seven Sisters” have far more relatives than anyone imagined. Using NASA and ESA space telescopes, astronomers found thousands of hidden stars linked to the Pleiades, forming a colossal stellar ...