Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...

Who is Dr Nikku Madhusudhan? Born in 1980 in India, Dr Madhusudhan earned his B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of ...

Scientists announce detection of compounds on an extrasolar planet that on Earth only produce living organisms, but other ...

Astronomers have discovered the weirdest planetary system ever seen, consisting of a planet rolling around rare binary ...

K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know.

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...

Using the radial velocity method, an international team of astronomers has discovered a new extrasolar planet orbiting a ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

"We can see, for the first time, rings of dust surrounding protoplanets made visible by the bright starlight reflecting off of them." ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy material, the ingredients of planets," according to NASA's Goddard Space ...

Nikku Madhusudhan coined the concept of hycean planets, supposedly the best class of planets to look for life.