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

"The James Webb Space Telescope has captured helium escape from this planet for the first time, and it is the most confident ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

What can a 3D map of an exoplanet’s atmosphere teach astronomers about the planet’s formation, evolution, and composition? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as ...

Astronomy on Tap ATX is partnering with C. L. Butaud for Astronomy Uncorked. How do astronomers discover planets orbiting distant stars? What have they found, and how do these exoplanets differ from ...

Astronomers have identified four exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star, a red dwarf star just 6 light-years away from Earth. No, really, this time it’s for real! We have to emphasize this because ...