Most have been found via microlensing: their gravity acts as a lens that boosts the light of a background star in a ...

We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there are.

The Webb telescope has spotted exoplanets circling white dwarf stars, proving that planets can survive their star’s violent ...

A new AI model from the University of Bern predicts planetary systems likely to host Earth-like planets. It could boost the ...

No planet in our solar system has a polar orbit. The several exoplanets known to follow such a path orbit only a single star. When two stars, or in this case two brown dwarfs, orbit each other, it is ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Researchers mapping a bubble of superheated gas that surrounds our solar system found a surprise, there is a tunnel that may ...

The star is located in our Milky Way galaxy about 12,000 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Aquila.

An international team has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known to date. This ultra-massive system existed just one billion years after the Big Bang and already shows a remarkably ...