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There's nothing to get a scientist's heart pumping like a good, old-fashioned statistical debate. When it comes to topics ...

A new gas giant world discovered by citizen scientists using data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS is cool, ...

Last week the James Webb Space Telescope captured a direct image of what they believe to be a previously unknown exoplanet ...

Observations of Exoplanet WASP-69b has uncovered a 350,000-mile-long comet-like tail. The tail is a result of its escaping ...

Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...

The exoplanet, a planet beyond our solar system, has been dubbed TWA 7b after NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured ...

The CRIRES+ instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has been used to measure the ...

Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme. At least, that's what astronomers found when ...

A unique gas giant has been confirmed through global teamwork, offering insights into planetary formation and future ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

An exoplanet is any planet beyond our solar system. Most of them orbit other stars, but some free-floating exoplanets, called ...