The planet is one of the best worlds for follow-up studies to determine whether it could be habitable or not.

A plan to build a light-polluting green hydrogen plant near one of the world's most important astronomical observatories has ...

Astronomers have detected an exoplanet candidate around a Sun-like star just 146 light-years away from us.

Aging stars can completely destroy their planets. When a star reaches the end of its life on the main sequence, it goes ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, is slightly smaller and more flattened than scientists once believed, ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study 25 hot Jupiters. It has helped to answer "questions important to our ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected clouds made of silicates, similar to sand here on Earth, as well as water, ...

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...

Why is it so rare to find exoplanets orbiting two stars, also called circumbinary planets (CBPs)? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysica | Space ...

Jupiter's radius is now estimated to be about 5 miles smaller than previously thought, while the distance from pole to pole is about 15 miles less.

A faint signal from old telescope data is causing a stir in astronomy: a planet barely larger than Earth, with an almost ...

India is significantly boosting its astronomical observation capabilities with four new and upgraded facilities. Finance ...