Astronomers discovered a companion star in Kappa Tucanae A, explaining the persistence of hot dust and creating a natural ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed massive clouds of helium escaping from the exoplanet WASP-107 b. The observations ...

Illustration: Xihe sun exploration satellite "With the help of the Xihe satellite, we can obtain full-disk solar spectra at more than 300 wavelength points simultaneously every 46 ...

A group of astronomers claim they have found the first exomoon in the universe. While we know about around 6,000 exoplanets, an exomoon has never been found. That might soon change if the latest ...

After decades of searching, astronomers may have finally stumbled upon the first moon known to exist beyond our solar ...

Kappa Tucanae A, 70 light-years away, hosts dust hotter than 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit that should not survive. Astronomers ...

Seventy light-years from Earth, a star called Kappa Tucanae A harbors one of astronomy's most perplexing mysteries: dust so hot it glows at more than ...

Watch how JW Telescope detects temperature on Trappist 1 b. Credit: Space.com | animation courtesy: ESO/L. Calçada / Space ...

Using a highly sensitive mass spectrometer capable of detecting trace chemicals, the researchers discovered that their early Earth simulation created an entire collection of sulfur biomolecules. These ...

Using the Webb telescope’s powerful Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, the team detected a sprawling helium cloud known as an exosphere. This exosphere stretches ...

What can star variability—changes in a star's brightness over time—teach astronomers about exoplanet habitability? This is ...

The rapidly spinning red giant star, a phase stellar bodies around the size of the sun enter when they exhaust their fuel for nuclear fusion, dwells in the binary system Gaia BH2. Located around 3,800 ...