Earth exoplanets orbiting M-dwarf stars, identifying specific candidates that may have retained detectable atmospheres.

Astronomers are uncovering distant worlds beyond our solar system using ingenious indirect methods like observing stellar ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered PSR J2322-2650b, a bizarre lemon-shaped exoplanet with a carbon-rich ...

Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

NASA ’s James Webb Space Telescope has found the strongest evidence yet that a small, rocky planet outside our solar system ...

The hunt is on for terrestrial exoplanets in habitable zones, and some of the most promising candidates were discovered almost a decade ago about 40 light-years from Earth. The TRAPPIST-1 system ...

Astronomers thought they had seen the "first hints of life on an alien world" this year, but they disappeared under closer ...

How many exoplanets orbit two stars? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to ...

Our sun is about halfway through its life, which means Earth is as well. After a star exhausts its hydrogen nuclear fuel, its diameter expands more than a hundredfold, engulfing any unlucky planets in ...

The first exoplanet ever discovered in 1995 was what we now call a "hot Jupiter," a planet as massive as Jupiter with an ...

We know Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system, but we rarely observed or heard about ‘Hot Jupiter’, that are ...

There's the invasion by a warlike species, there's the highly evolved species trying to communicate with our primitive ...