The new exoplanet Elias 2-24 b is the youngest ever discovered, still forming in a cloud of debris around a young star just ...

A planet 48 light-years away is leaking helium from its upper atmosphere, a discovery that’s gotten astronomers excited. The planet in question, LHS 1140 b, was first spotted in 2017. NASA and many ...

South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope has helped astronomers achieve a world first: detecting radio signals directly from a planet ...

For the first time, scientists have directly detected radio waves coming from a planet outside our solar system. The discovery was made from the young gas giant Beta Pictoris b, giving astronomers a ...