Planets form in disks of gas and dust, orbiting young stars. The MIRI Mid-INfrared Disk Survey (MINDS), led by Thomas Henning ...
A lot of people are focused on signs of alien life, but the space telescope will have a lot to say about exoplanet geology and formation.
The red dwarf is 600 light-years away and gives astronomers a front-row view to the environments in which rocky planets like ...
The water vapor was detected after three years of observing GJ 9827d and could be an example of planets with water-rich ...
A meteor is a flash of light in the atmosphere when debris burns up ... cataclysmic event between large asteroid-size bodies.
which are typically found in systems surrounding stars like our Sun. Regarding the potential for rocky planets, the ...
Astronomers using the JWST have discovered tiny stars may be better suited at birthing small, rocky planets with atmospheres ...
New research highlights how planet formation differs around very low mass stars (VLMS) compared to sun-like stars. Data from ...
David Latham, senior astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told VOA that there haven’t been many discoveries of rocky planets surrounded by an Earth-like atmosphere.
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of astronomers, including MPIA scientists, studied the properties of a ...
Some 1,800 light-years away from Earth, an extraordinary exoplanet has braved all odds to survive the extreme radiation ...
"These observations are not possible from Earth because the relevant gas emissions are absorbed by its atmosphere," explained ... implications for finding rocky planets with Earth-like ...