It is 20 years ago this year that Europe, in collaboration with the United States, launched the first infrared observatory into space. Its infrared powers revealed a secret universe that, to this day, ...

An international team led by the Universities of Geneva (UNIGE) and Montreal published the first results today from the NIRPS spectrograph installed on the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

Astronomers discovered FFPs (free floating planets- rogue planets) more than 20 years ago, using the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope in Hawaii. Since then, observers have spotted hundreds rogue ...

Instead, he revealed the presence of a third world—an exoplanet so small, it is the faintest planet ever imaged using a terrestrial telescope. In December 2025, Sutlieff, a postdoctoral research ...

Astronomers found nearby exoplanet GJ 3378b may be more Earth-like than thought, strengthening its chances of supporting life ...

Astronomers now have a powerful new tool to uncover the faintest traces of exoplanets, galactic structures, variable stars, and fleeting cosmic events beyond our solar system. The Prime-focus Infrared ...

Using two infrared space telescopes and a 23-year gap, scientists may have spotted a mysterious, slow-moving object beyond Neptune. Reading time 3 minutes A team of astronomers says it has identified ...

Unique follow up observations carried out with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope are providing important supporting evidence for the existence of a candidate planetary companion to a relatively ...

Planets form in disks of gas and dust, orbiting young stars. The MIRI Mid-INfrared Disk Survey (MINDS), led by Thomas Henning from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) in Heidelberg, Germany, ...

A small, rocky world orbiting a red dwarf star roughly 48 light-years from Earth has become the focus of a new study challenging assumptions about what makes a planet capable of supporting life. The ...