The CRIRES+ instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has been used to measure the ...

Researchers studied the L 98-59 system and confirmed five rocky planets. One is in the habitable zone and may support liquid water.

Illustration of the planetary system of L 98-59: five small exoplanets orbit closely around this red dwarf star, located 35 ...

Astronomers have just revealed a massive exoplanet anywhere from three to ten times the size of Jupiter, lurking within the ...

A team of astronomers confirms the existence of a fifth potentially habitable planet around L 98-59, a 35-liter red dwarf.

Magnetic fields play an important—if sometimes underappreciated—part in planetary systems. Without a strong magnetic field, ...

The first direct detection of a protoplanet confirms a long-held theory while presenting new possibilities for understanding ...

The ESA's INVICTUS initiative has entered the race to develop potentially revolutionary reusable hypersonic flight technology ...

Over 5,600 exoplanets, worlds beyond our solar system, have been discovered, and each one challenges what we thought we knew ...

Using the European Space Agency’s Characterizing Exoplanets Satellite (CHEOPS) telescope, a team of astronomers ...

The punishing radiation appears to be causing the planet to shed its atmosphere at a rate of at least 1 trillion grams per second, according to a new study involving NASA 's Chandra X-ray Observatory.

A baby planet is shrinking from the size of Jupiter with a thick atmosphere to a small, barren world, according to a new ...