Kepler-1708 b itself was only discovered in 2021. But still, this meant of the 5,000 known exoplanets or so, just two had been found with moons. This wasn't too much of a concern for astronomers ...

When NASA's Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986, it captured grainy photographs of large ice-covered moons. Now nearly 40 years ...

Even JWST can’t separate these tiny planets from their host stars – as they orbit their stars too closely. But there is a way ...

The moon is mostly basaltic," he said. "We're testing basaltic materials here on Earth to eventually elucidate the ...

Some minerals in lava could suggest water is nearby.

It seems reasonable that there are moons around exoplanets in other stellar systems, and now we're going to start looking for them with the James Webb Space Telescope. The Cool Worlds Lab is part ...

This image shows wide (left) and close-up (right) views of the moon-forming disk surrounding PDS 70c, a young Jupiter-like planet nearly 400 light-years away. The close-up view shows PDS 70c and ...

and selected moons of Jupiter and Saturn before the end of the 21st century. The 23rd century could see launches of human-crewed interstellar missions to exoplanets within about 40 light-years ...

Future searches with improved monitoring technology are expected to reveal ever smaller exoplanets, worlds that orbit at larger distances from their parent stars, and even alien moons. Based on ...