NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has teamed up with a telescope on the ground to find a remote gas planet about 13,000 light-years away, making it one of the most distant planets known.

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

Process may point to a general means of finding very distant planets. John Timmer – Oct 27, 2021 4:47 pm | 23 The site of the X-ray source in the Whirlpool Galaxy.

An image of the distant galaxy where the planets were found. Surrounding it are four images of the quasar behind it, created by the light bending around the galaxy.

Scientists have been working on ways to find new worlds far from Earth, and this strange method theorized decades ago has ...

The possible Saturn-sized planet was detected in the galaxy Messier 51, 28 million light-years from Earth, making it the most distant exoplanet ever found.

The new galaxy, because of how far away it is, looks to observers exactly as it did when it was first created 3 billion years ...

Researchers at the University of Oklahoma looking at a galaxy 3.8 billion light years away spotted evidence of planets. More specifically, they think that there should be at least 2,000 objects ...

The Solar System is a fascinating place, with each planet orbiting the Sun at its own unique distance. But how far apart are ...

If this planet really exists, M51-ULS-1 would mark the first pinpointed star system in another galaxy that has an “extroplanet,” or a planet found outside of our home galaxy, the Milky Way.

Editor's Note: This article was provided by our partner, ScienceNordic. The original is here. In recent years, astronomers have discovered hundreds of new planets from distant parts of our galaxy, the ...

Astronomers have been leapfrogging each other into the past lately. Last week, a group using the Hubble Space Telescope announced they had discovered what could be the most distant and earliest ...