A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

AN alien world “suffers star-grazing torture” every 111 days as its fiery sun boils the planet to a hellish 1,093C. This ...

Abundance of Earth-like Exoplanets The universe has no shortage of similarities to Earth when it comes to celestial ...

Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...

Staring up at the night sky, you might see thousands of stars sprinkled above the horizon. It feels as though you can see so ...

W.M. Keck Observatory imagery of star system HR 8799 have been time-lapsed. The system hosts four planets that are more ...

HWO will be the first space telescope built to find potentially habitable planets and analyze their atmospheres for signs of ...

Astronomers have found two planets around two separate stars that are succumbing to their stars' intense heat.

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered two ...

Almost 30 years after the first planet outside our solar system was discovered, more than 7,000 other exoplanets have been identified. Now, it’s time to add another to the list. A team of researchers ...

"Its luminosity and proximity make it an ideal candidate for future telescopes whose mission will be to observe the atmospheres of exoplanets directly," said Xavier Dumusque of the University of ...

New technology allows exoplanets to be studied in more detail. Now the team of a German astronomer has discovered extreme ...