Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

So-called M dwarfs are the most common stars in the Milky Way. A research team has determined around which of them Earth-like ...

Orbiting its star in an elliptical path at less than half the distance between Earth and the Sun, this exoplanet offers a ...

A unique new material that shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled could help enable the ultra-stable space ...

Studies of 15 M-type stars have revealed new insights into the potential presence of exoplanets. A new study led by ...

Readers doubtless know that metals expand when heated. As explained in a NASA blog post that’s a problem for space telescopes because if their components warm and expand it can mean that the shape of ...

How light is light? The James Webb Space Telescope has just been able to directly image a planet so light and faint that, in ...

When the search for habitable exoplanets requires a 1,000 times more stable telescope than James Webb Space Telescope, even ...

Astronomers have discovered the strange dance that leads to the creation of rare "double hot Jupiters" in binary star systems ...

A unique new material that shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled could help enable the ultra-stable space telescopes ...

Since its debut in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has dazzled viewers with its infrared images of galaxies, nebulae, ...

TOI-4465 b is a gas giant exoplanet about 25 per cent larger than Jupiter – the largest planet in our Solar System – and nearly six times its mass. The new planet has a temperature range of 375 to 478 ...