That would make it thousands of times more massive than any moon orbiting a solar system plane  — so massive it could make ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

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A sizzling exoplanet caught by the James Webb Space Telescope is shedding its atmosphere and leaving behind two gigantic helium tails.

There are thousands of known exoplanets, many of which are too dark to directly see, but scientists have made a 3D map by ...

Astronomers have captured the most dramatic view yet of a planet losing its atmosphere, watching the ultra-hot gas giant WASP ...

Astronomers from the University of Geneva, working with colleagues in Canada and the United States, have captured the ...

Deep beneath the surface of distant exoplanets known as super-Earths, oceans of molten rock may be doing something ...

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

Astronomers have spotted a monster-sized planet that could be up to ten times the size of Jupiter emerging from the stellar fog surrounding a young star. Prior observations of the roughly 13 ...

Artist's view of WASP-107b. The planet’s low density and the intense irradiation from its star allow helium to escape the planet and form an asymmetric extended and diffuse envelope around it.