An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of two new exoplanets, a few times more massive than Earth, ...

Last week astronomers reported hints of biological activity on a distant planet, but a re-analysis of their data suggests the ...

Webb is helping scientists understand these gassy exoplanets 'in a way that was not possible prior to the telescope’s launch, ...

On a faraway planet, the James Webb Space Telescope has picked up signs of molecules that, on Earth, are produced only by ...

An exoplanet located 73 light-years away is defying astronomers' expectations. TOI-270 d, far from being an ocean world, appears to be a scorching super-Earth enveloped in a dense atmosphere.

Neptune, TOI-270 d provides a critical opportunity to understand atmospheric composition and planetary evolution in a ...

Astronomers have made a breakthrough discovery suggesting that super-Earth exoplanets are not only widespread across the ...

Dimethyl sulfide is in the news after NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have detected relatively high levels of it in the ...

Sub-Neptunes, planets with diameters bigger than Earth's but smaller than Neptune's, are the most prevalent form of exoplanet ...

The idea that our Solar System is representative of other solar systems hasn't survived the age of exoplanet discovery.

A study led by the University of Cambridge has sparked fresh excitement in the search for extraterrestrial life, after researchers found possible signs of ...

Astronomers have just uncovered fascinating signs we may not be alone in the universe. RNZ talks with an astrophysicist about ...