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

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

Using the Webb telescope’s powerful Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, the team detected a ...

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...

Of the seven Earth-sized worlds orbiting the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, one planet in particular has attracted the attention ...

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

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

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

A radio signal has been detected, pointing to the possible existence of a magnetic field on YZ Ceti b, an exoplanet 12 ...

One of seven Earth-sized planets, TRAPPIST-1d, caught the attention of NASA researchers and is one of the promising planets ...

Using the JWST, an international team featuring UNIGE scientists has detected enormous clouds of helium streaming away from ...

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