WD 1856+534b—a freezing world with a surface temperature of -125 degrees Fahrenheit—exists where planets are normally scoured ...

"How planets are born is an unsolved area of research," astrophysicist Daniel Price of Australia's Monash University told ...

Using the Kepler space telescope, the agency had discovered an exoplanet the size of Earth located in the habitable zone of another star. The planet was the first of a similar size to Earth ...

An exoplanet discovered in 2020 contains the coldest temperatures ever measured on a planetary body, according to scientists.

The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the presence of water ice in a planetary system beyond our own for the first ...

Astronomers have discovered a major sign of life — and “the first hints ... Webb Space Telescope to record light from the host star as it is refracted through the planet’s atmosphere ...

But the study authors, and other experts, remain cautious and have not declared a definitive discovery of life beyond our planet. Using the James Webb Space Telescope ... Madhusudhan and his ...

The peer-reviewed report in the Astrophysical Journal Letters presents more questions than answers, acknowledges numerous uncertainties and does not declare the discovery of life beyond Earth, ...

While the planet itself was discovered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope a good 10 years ago, it took until 2019 for water vapour to be found in its atmosphere. This marked K2-18b as the first ...