A sizzling exoplanet caught by the James Webb Space Telescope is shedding its atmosphere and leaving behind two gigantic helium tails.

Astronomers have captured the most dramatic view yet of a planet losing its atmosphere, watching the ultra-hot gas giant WASP ...

There are thousands of known exoplanets, many of which are too dark to directly see, but scientists have made a 3D map by ...

Astronomers from the University of Geneva, working with colleagues in Canada and the United States, have captured the ...

The hunt for worlds beyond our solar system has shifted from counting planets to confronting extremes that strain basic ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system. In 1995, a gas giant named 51 Pegasi b, which orbits a star similar to Earth's sun, etched its name in history as the first exoplanet ever ...

The first sign of possible extraterrestrials detected in the cosmos didn't come in the form of little green aliens flying around in saucer-shaped spacecraft. In fact, the life that could be – emphasis ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This artist’s concept depicts one possible appearance of the planet Kepler-452b, the first ...

Deep beneath the surface of distant exoplanets known as super-Earths, oceans of molten rock may be doing something ...