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

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

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

Using the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC), astronomers have performed high-resolution spectroscopic observations ...

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

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

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

The Chandra X-ray Telescope is investigating the habitability of exoplanets. NASA explains. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...

According to astronomers, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in our observable universe — chances are, ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

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

Named HD 20794 D, the newly discovered exoplanet orbits a star similar to the Sun, and researchers believe it may be able to ...