An international team including astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Center of Competence in ...

NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS has heard the song a star-quaking red giant sings to its partner black hole.

Astronomers observed giant helium clouds escaping exoplanet WASP-107b, revealing atmospheric loss and offering key insight ...

After decades of searching, astronomers may have finally stumbled upon the first moon known to exist beyond our solar ...

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

European astronomers report the discovery of a second alien world in the TOI-1422 planetary system located some 500 light ...

Published in Nature Astronomy, the findings represent a first: while helium escape has been observed before, this is the ...

Using the Webb telescope’s powerful Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, the team detected a sprawling helium cloud known as an exosphere. This exosphere stretches ...

When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star's habitable zone. Water is a key ingredient for life, and on a planet too close to ...

One of seven Earth-sized planets, TRAPPIST-1d, caught the attention of NASA researchers and is one of the promising planets ...