By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, June 2 (Reuters) - Based on the behavior of winds on seven large and hot gas exoplanets, ...

A team of astronomers has found the strongest evidence yet that some planets outside our solar system may be magnetic. Using ...

Astronomers have discovered the first evidence of magnetic worlds beyond the solar system, representing a major step forward ...

Although astronomers have directly imaged a few dozen gas giants on the scale of Jupiter, Earth-sized planets are too small and dim to be directly imaged. That's not to say there's a shortage of Earth ...

The mysterious invisible shield around a planet.

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now officially on the lookout for potential next destinations for humanity ...

Space telescopes are revolutionizing exoplanet discovery, allowing astronomers to detect Earth-like worlds orbiting distant stars. By observing subtle dimming of starlight, measuring gravitational ...

A pair of scorched worlds circling the red dwarf TRAPPIST-1 now offer one of the clearest looks yet at what life may be up against around the most common stars in the Milky Way. Using the James Webb ...

(CNN) — Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time, if more detailed analyses verify preliminary observations from the James ...

What role can the relationship between oxygen (O 2) and ozone (O 3) in exoplanet atmospheres have on detecting biosignatures? This is what a study submitted to Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to ...

NASA's Webb telescope analyzes weather on distant exoplanet WASP-94A b, revealing extreme atmospheric patterns 700 lightyears ...

A planet so distant that its starlight began traveling toward Earth around the Middle Ages has given one University of Cincinnati graduate student the kind of first look astronomers wait years for.