There’s something intriguing about the unknown, especially when it’s hurtling towards our solar system. Astronomers and ...

May the faint chemical signals drifting through the atmosphere of a distant world be the long-sought message that we are not alone. Astronomers have reported seeing an unusual and strong combination ...

New research using Nasa’s powerful JWST telescope has identified a planet 41 light years away which may have an atmosphere.

When scientists discovered the first planet orbiting another star in 1995, few outside astronomy circles noticed. That planet ...

"Our approach gives astronomers an idea of how many spots a star might have, where they are located, and how bright or dark ...

An international team used NASA's JWST to observe a planet named Trappist-1 e, to determine if this rocky planet located within its star's habitable zone has an atmosphere. This planet is one of seven ...

What role can the relationship between oxygen (O2) and ozone (O3) in exoplanet atmospheres have on detecting biosignatures?

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

The newfound exoplanet, called Kepler-139f, is a gigantic world roughly twice the mass of Neptune and 35 times the mass of Earth, and it takes 355 days to orbit its star, astronomers reported in a ...

NASA has discovered a new super-Earth that has a year only lasting a few hours. The exoplanet K2-141b, was found very close to its orange sun-like star, and has an orbital period of less than one ...

The star has been catalogued as Kepler 51 from observations made by NASA’s Kepler mission, and exoplanets in the Kepler 51 system were first discovered in 2013.

This illustration provided by Dan Durda shows the exoplanet Kepler-1625b with a hypothesized moon. On Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018, two Columbia University researchers reported their results that the ...