The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering mystery about how distant planets form, researchers said.

So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...

Normally, the Webb telescope only detects exoplanets by glimpsing them when ... From there, we can try to get a sense of how weird our solar system really is—or how normal." ...

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James Webb Space Telescope has captured four of them in the stellar system HR ...

The findings suggest that the giant exoplanets in the HR 8799 system likely ... "From there, we can try to get a sense of how weird our solar system really is — or how normal." ...

However, the most common exoplanets astronomers detect are larger ... The post WASP-69b - and its weird tail - help us understand the cosmos appeared first on Astronomy Magazine.

Astronomers have discovered two exoplanets around TOI-1453, a star about 250 light years away. These two exoplanets, a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune, are common in the galaxy, yet are absent from ...

These days, researchers commonly discover exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. But sometimes there’s a special discovery, like an exoplanet right in our backyard — and that’s the ...