NASA's upcoming Pandora mission will complement the James Webb Space Telescope by making it easier to detect water in the ...

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...

An international team of researchers has confirmed the existence of an exoplanet first identified by Oxford researcher Dr Michael Cretignier in 2022. Researchers have described the planet as “among ...

Discover how NASA’s James Webb Telescope unveiled GJ 1214 b, an exoplanet possibly rich in water vapour and hidden beneath ...

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

"Temperamental" stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant ...

New research shows that star activity can distort exoplanet measurements, affecting size, temperature, and atmosphere ...

Astronomers discovered the exoplanet in 2016, a gas giant that’s slightly larger than Jupiter with a fraction of its mass, making it rather puffy. WASP-127b takes a little over four days to orbit ...

The exoplanet is also likely tidally locked to its star the same ... the researchers identified the presence of carbon monoxide and water vapor in the planet's upper atmosphere. In studying that ...

Using 20 years of data from the Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have discovered that turbulent stars could be corrupting ...