The James Webb Space Telescope has investigated an exoplanet that’s super cool — literally. The huge planet, which is six times the mass of Jupiter, is the coldest exoplanet ever detected, with an ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have directly detected the faint glow of a planet that’s colder than any ...

In 2020, astronomers detected WD 1856+534 b, a gas giant that orbits a star 81 light-years from Earth. This exoplanet, which ...

Like the Star Wars planet, a distant world follows a path around two stars, both of them small, cool bodies called brown ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It's about 11 times wider than Earth with an equatorial diameter of 88,846 ...

But the study authors, and other experts, remain cautious and have not declared a definitive discovery of life beyond our planet ... s research found that in order to sustain the abundance ...

The planet, named 2M1510 (AB) b, orbits around this pair. Another brown dwarf is present in this system, but is too far away ...

It’s about 8.6 times the mass of Earth and orbits within the habitable (or “Goldilocks”) zone of a red dwarf star ... of dimethyl sulfide in the planet’s atmosphere.

From observations, scientists know that K2-18b is orbiting a red dwarf star in an area known as the 'habitable zone' in which liquid water can exist. As the planet passes in front of its star ...

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but heavier than gas giant planets. (M. Kornmesser/ESO via AP) This artist’s illustration provided by the European Southern Observatory shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs ...