In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

SANTA CRUZ — Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed ...

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An ultra-hot rocky exoplanet may be wrapped in a dense atmosphere, defying expectations about what small planets can sustain.

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 Webb ...

More studies are needed to determine whether TRAPPIST-1e has an atmosphere at all, or the hints of methane are linked to the host star.

Piette said an atmosphere would allow gases like water vapor to absorb some wavelengths of light, keeping the telescope's ...

Astronomers have discovered a bizarre carbon-rich planet orbiting a neutron star, PSR J2322-2650b, with soot clouds and ...

The odds of discovering another Earth are looking slimmer than once believed. A growing body of evidence suggests that truly ...