NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will conduct the Galactic Bulge Time-Domain Survey, observing hundreds of millions of stars and exoplanets in the Milky Way’s center.

Scientists have discovered over 6,000 planets that orbit stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets. More than half of these planets were discovered thanks to data from NASA's retired Kepler ...

In addition to shaping the interior of rocky planets, molten rock located deep within these planets may also contribute to ...

A sizzling exoplanet caught by the James Webb Space Telescope is shedding its atmosphere and leaving behind two gigantic helium tails.

How can magnetic fields help determine the habitability of exoplanets? This is what a recent study published in Nature ...

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

Astronomers have captured the most dramatic view yet of a planet losing its atmosphere, watching the ultra-hot gas giant WASP ...

New research from the University of Rochester suggests that molten rock deep inside so-called super-earths may generate ...

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

Planets that once lived only in pulp novels and movie concept art are now turning up in real data. Astronomers are not just ...

The University of Arizona will serve as mission control for a newly launched space telescope designed to study distant ...

The James Webb telescope's search for habitable exoplanets is getting a big boost from its new star-watching companion, ...