In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, astronomers describe the youngest transiting planet ever found. It’s ...

Astronomers have stumbled upon a pair of massive black holes in a distant galaxy that are triggering unusual bursts of light ...

Astronomers have spotted orbiting around a young star a newborn planet that took only 3 million years to form - quite swift ...

WOH G64 is 2,000 times the size of the sun and is 160,000 light-years distant in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy.

Researchers have discovered three ultra-massive galaxies from the universe's first billion years, challenging existing models of star formation. These galaxies, identified with the James Webb Space ...

Not so far from Earth, an infant planet is just getting its start at life. And by peeking beneath the thick cocoon of ...

The data, and the debate, shed light on how difficult it still is to make sense of the atmospheres of distant exoplanets. Banerjee and colleagues published their work in The Astrophysical Journal ...

The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming that it is not surrounded by any exoplanets, JWST images reveal.

“One of the most intriguing questions right now in exoplanet astronomy is: Can rocky planets orbiting M-dwarf stars maintain atmospheres that could support life?” said lead author Joshua ...

One thing we've learned in recent decades is that exoplanets are surprisingly common. So far, we've confirmed nearly 6,000 planets, and we have evidence for thousands more. Most of these planets ...

Astronomers using the VLT Survey Telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile have taked a 283-million-pixel image of the Dark Wolf Nebula. The Dark Wolf Nebula is located approximately 5,300 light ...

They take place in the Poynting Large Lecture Theatre on floor two of the Poynting Physics Building, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham ... Her work focuses on exoplanets and ...