Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery that challenges our understanding of gas giant formation within our solar ...

Learn how exoplanets are discovered, what makes planets beyond our solar system unique, and how they drive the ongoing search ...

Researchers present strong evidence for a planet circling two brown dwarfs on a near polar path. The orbit is tilted almost ...

The team discovered that the surface might contain liquid water, an essential ingredient for life. Astronomers from the, Irvine have discovered a planet orbiting within the “habitable zone” of its ...

Researchers have come up with a color-coded key that could prove crucial in detecting signs of life on exoplanet clouds.

TESS launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 in 2018 to study exoplanets that transit their star from our perspective, meaning they ...

Astronomers have so far confirmed over 5,900 exoplanet discoveries. - NASA / JPL-Caltech / R. Hurt / K. Miller illustration Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — ...

A newly detected super-Earth just 20 light-years away is giving scientists one of the most promising chances yet to search ...

The planets have been nicknamed Earth's seven sisters. — -- An international team of astronomers has discovered seven potentially habitable exoplanets — or planets outside our solar system — that ...

Just decades after the first exoplanets were identified, our database of the distant worlds—monitored by the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute—has breached a new threshold. Now, astronomers have ...