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By Paul Sutter Published
Extreme exomoons with tidal heating and thick, hydrogen-rich atmospheres may be able to create billions of years of potentially habitable surface conditions.

By Keith Cooper Published
These worlds are among the least dense ever found, and all attempts to probe their atmospheres have been blocked by a mysterious smog.

By Robert Lea Published
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered an example of a new class of exoplanet, and it smells like rotten eggs.

By Robert Lea Published
Astronomers have witnessed evidence of an extremely violent collision between planets, and it resembles the event in Earth's history that created the moon.

By Tereza Pultarova Published
The world's first commercial space telescope has released its first image as it begins its journey to help track nearby stars that might host habitable exoplanets.

By Stefanie Waldek Published
Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity strikes again.

By Robert Lea Published
A mysterious object has caused a long-lasting and extreme dimming of a distant star, but is this object a 'failed star' brown dwarf, or an exceptionally massive super-Jupiter exoplanet?

By Samantha Mathewson Published
Astronomers have discovered a planetary system that appears to flip one of astronomy's most reliable rules on its head.
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