While most students her age are just beginning high school, a 14-year-old home-schooled student in Laramie is preparing to ...

After years of discovering exoplanets at a staggering pace, astronomers are now starting to distinguish the simply ...

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

When one celestial object passes in front of another, it can cast a shadow that travels across space – and sometimes across Earth. These moments of alignment, known as eclipses, occultations, and ...

Petela, R. and Biel, J. (2026) Radiation from Proxima Centauri Reaching Its Planet Proxima b. International Journal of ...

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Spread the loveThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unveiled a groundbreaking discovery that could reshape our understanding of exoplanets. In an announcement made on March 22, 2026, researchers ...

Astronomers have uncovered surprising evidence of a thick atmosphere surrounding TOI-561 b, a scorching, fast-orbiting rocky ...

This artistic illustration shows the TRAPPIST-1 red dwarf star system, home to seven Earth-sized exoplanets, several of which ...

The idea uses a "starshade" to let astronomers find Earth-like exoplanets, even with existing ground-based telescopes.

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