Astriking discovery by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unveiled the bizarre and fascinating nature of the exoplanet ...

WASP-121b is unlike anything in our Solar System. This giant planet orbits its star so closely that it completes a full orbit in just 30.5 hours. Its dayside reaches a scorching 3000°C, while the ...

Solar flares, blasts of plasma gasses of solar energy might shape the short-term weather on distant planets according to a ...

Proxima Centauri b is the closest known exoplanet to our solar system that is thought to be within the habitable zone of its star.

Some exoplanets in their stars' habitable zones may be distinctly uninhabitable due to solar flaring. Red dwarfs are known for powerful flaring, and since they're dim and their habitable zones are ...

On October 9, 2008, the State Space Agency of Ukraine sent a message towards Gliese 581c. Unlike the Voyager records, whose messages were chosen by a committee chaired by renowned physicist Carl Sagan ...

A giant gas planet comparable in size to Saturn exists around a small red dwarf star. The discovery is beyond the scope of ...

Astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets, some in the so-called habitable zone, Does that mean these planets could ...

Dr Cyril Bourgenot from our Centre for Advanced Instrumentation is part of a team developing cutting-edge technology to ...

A team of international researchers led by Tomas Stolker in the Netherlands has imaged a young gas giant exoplanet near a 12-million-year-old star. The planet is orbiting a star whose planet formation ...

A close-in exoplanet is triggering stellar flares and self-destructing. This is the first direct evidence of planet-star ...

Here, Cyril tells us about his work and how it could help answer the ultimate astronomical question – is there life elsewhere ...