Most astronomers agree that life is likely common throughout the universe. While Earth is the only world known to have life, ...

Exoplanets—planets that orbit stars beyond our solar system—have transformed our understanding of the universe. Since the ...

Roman was similarly designed with a focused set of science goals, including exploring an uncharted region of exoplanet ...

New views of TOI-421 b by JWST gives insight into how the most common type of planet in the galaxy might form.

At a frigid -125 degrees Fahrenheit (-87 degrees Celsius), WD 1856+534 b is the coldest planet ever directly observed, ...

"I had been waiting my entire career for Webb so that we could meaningfully characterize the atmospheres of these smaller ...

Astronomers didn’t even know sub-Neptunes existed until NASA’s Kepler mission uncovered them over the past decade. Although a ...

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

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists have found the coldest exoplanet that is orbiting a dead star, also called a white dwarf. Named WD 1856+534 b, the exoplanet is a gas giant, ...

The Milky Way is known to host a diverse array of planetary systems, providing astronomers with extensive insights into how ...

Explore the discovery of seven Earth-like planets beyond our solar system.