Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

Astronomers rarely see distant planets directly, instead tracking tiny stellar wobbles and fading light. How do these subtle ...

Astronomers are uncovering distant worlds beyond our solar system using ingenious indirect methods like observing stellar ...

The exploration of distant planets, exoplanets, is taking a decisive turn. A recent study published in Astrophysical Journal Letters proposes an unprecedented method for detecting life beyond our ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered PSR J2322-2650b, a bizarre lemon-shaped exoplanet with a carbon-rich ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. Dec 07, 2024, 05:19am EST Feb 10, 2025, 12:18pm EST This ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected two alien planets orbiting white dwarfs, the collapsed husks of once-mighty stars. The discovery offers a hint of what our solar system will look like after ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has made the first detection ever of an organic molecule in a planet orbiting another star. This breakthrough is an important step in eventually identifying signs ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have investigated a new "super-Jupiter" planet that is one of the coldest worlds ever seen outside the solar system. The extrasolar planet or ...