"It confirms K2-18 b to be our best chance to study a potential habitable environment beyond the solar system at the present time." ...

Since the discovery of planetary nebulae in the late 1700s, astronomers have learned that these expanding shells of glowing ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a new rogue planet that was orphaned from its home planetary ...

A large sub-Neptune-sized planet revolving around a red dwarf star 124 light years away has been the topic of debate among ...

Showing that you shouldn't draw conclusions based on too few facts, new NASA research suggests that a decades-old view of ...

The Very Large Telescope in Chile has found, for the first time, an infant planet nestled in spiral arms of dust around a distant sun-like star.

Claims that extraterrestrial life may exist on the exoplanet K2-18b face new challenges from James Webb Space Telescope data.

NASA's James Webb Super Telescope found something intriguing when studying exoplanets: rain. But not the kind of rain it ...

The newly discovered L 98-59 f is a super-Earth, with a minimum mass 2.8 times that of our planet. It follows a nearly circular 23-day orbit around its star, receiving about the same amount of stellar ...

A massive doomed exoplanet on a death spiral toward its parent star has three possible catastrophic fates. A massive planet ...

Discovered through the Formation of the Outer Solar System: An Icy Legacy (FOSSIL) survey using the Subaru Telescope in ...

The team detected strong absorption signals from a range of molecules in the atmosphere of V1298 Tau b. These included water ...