A new discovery suggests the possibility of an exomoon with an unprecedentedly large mass, thousands of times larger than any ...

Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the ...

Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the "habitable zone," where a planet ...

From September 2024 to May 2025, a Sun-like star designated J0705+0612 became 40 times dimmer. Researchers describe the ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

That would make it thousands of times more massive than any moon orbiting a solar system plane  — so massive it could make ...

What effects can an exoplanet orbiting close to its star have on the former’s atmosphere? This is what a recent study ...

Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four ...

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

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

The supposed "strange signals" were not mysterious at all, but commonly observed transit signals, according to NASA.

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing link in planet formation.