This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...

SPHEREx will begin routine science operations in late April, NASA said. At that time, the space telescope will begin taking about 600 exposures a day. The observatory is capable of detecting infrared ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

Enaiposha (GJ 1214 b), a super-hot exoplanet 47 light-years away, challenges scientists with its thick haze, metal-rich ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

Young Gas Giant HR 8799 e (NIRCam Spectrum) / Credit: NASA Astronomers have now discovered nearly 6,000 exoplanets, many of them massive — and none of them known to be habitable. The "huge leap ...

Although starshades – a technology first proposed in the 1960s, four decades before the first exoplanet was discovered – have never flown in space and have not been approved for flight, they could ...

such as the exoplanet WASP-39 b imagined in this illustration. IMAGE NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) Could there be life on planets outside our solar system? For astrophysicists, it’s a big ...

Scientists have used data from NASA's retired planet-hunting space ... Kepler uncovered thousands of exoplanets. The UCLA team turned to 1,600 of these light curves to extract information about ...