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Stunning 'sun dogs' could sparkle in alien skies, James Webb Space Telescope suggestsHigh-speed winds on exoplanet WASP-17b may align quartz crystals in its atmosphere and create dazzling light effects like "sun dogs."
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5th planet found orbiting nearby star may lie in habitable zoneA super-Earth exoplanet has been detected within the habitable zone of a nearby red dwarf star, where liquid water might exist on its surface under the right atmospheric conditions.
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A doomed exoplanet is caught in a 'death spiral' around its star. Can it survive?A massive doomed exoplanet on a death spiral toward its parent star has three possible catastrophic fates.
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Bad news for alien life? Earth-size planets may be less common than we thoughtUp to 200 worlds investigated by NASA's exoplanet-hunting TESS satellite could be bigger than predicted, a finding that could impact our search for alien life.
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'A completely new phenomenon': Astronomers spot a planet causing its star to constantly explodeAstronomers have spotted an alien planet orbiting so closely to its home star, the planet's magnetic field is triggering massive solar flares to erupt. This is the first time a planet has been seen influencing its host star.
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Astronomers discover origins of mysterious double hot Jupiter exoplanets: 'It is a dance of sorts'Astronomers have discovered the strange dance that leads to the creation of rare "double hot Jupiters" in binary star systems that are "just right."
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James Webb telescope discovers its first planet — a Saturn-size 'shepherd' still glowing red hot from its formationNestled inside a planetary ring 110 light-years from Earth, a planet spotted by the James Webb telescope is the lightest exoplanet ever detected.
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Alcohol-soaked star system could help explain 'why life, including us, was able to form'The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array has detected methanol isotopes around a nearby star, which could help explain why the ingredients for life are present on Earth.
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JWST spies frigid alien world on bizarre orbit: 'One of the coldest, oldest and faintest planets that we've imaged to date'The James Webb Space Telescope has notched another milestone, capturing a direct image of one of the coldest and oldest known exoplanets.
