The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been studying the scene of a dramatic collision between a star and its planet, but ...

Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first ...

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is allowing astronomers to examine the complex and turbulent ...

Scientists thought they saw a distant star swallow a planet for the first time ever. But new observations from the James Webb ...

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Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets — worlds beyond our solar system. Most of them are in single-star systems, ...

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

Astronomers have made a detection suggesting biosignatures, or signs of biological activity, on an exoplanet located 124 ...

A Cambridge team studying the atmosphere of a planet called K2-18b has detected signs of molecules which on Earth are only ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...

Planets are eaten by dying stars as they turn into red giants and expand. Earth will be eaten by the sun in billions of years ...

NASA's James Webb Telescope has been investigating the first-ever case of a star caught swallowing a planet—and, in classic ...