The Very Large Telescope's SPHERE instrument captured unprecedented images of 51 dusty rings shaping young planetary systems.

There is a new method to detect and map spots on stars by "using observations from NASA missions of orbiting planets." ...

After cataloging thousands of worlds beyond our solar system, astronomers are now closing in on a far rarer prize: a moon ...

Astronomers have spotted a distant world "shedding" its atmosphere into space in real time, creating a giant cloud of helium ...

Analysis of early direct images from James Webb telescope show immense dust clouds on brown dwarf that lead to a blurring of ...

Using direct imaging, astronomers have found a brown dwarf that could help test technology for taking snapshots of Earthlike ...

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

An international team including astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Center of Competence in ...

A team of scientists is developing a "quantum-sensitive" device that could capture direct images of Earth-like exoplanets — something astronomers tend to consider so difficult it's nearly impossible.

The planets have been nicknamed Earth's seven sisters. — -- An international team of astronomers has discovered seven potentially habitable exoplanets — or planets outside our solar system — that ...

Scorching planets that should be bone-dry may actually create their own water deep inside, forging oceans through molten rock ...

The final integration of the telescope's major observatory components took place on Nov. 25 inside NASA's Goddard Space ...