European astronomers report the discovery of a second alien world in the TOI-1422 planetary system located some 500 light ...

A newly identified super-Earth orbiting a nearby star has rapidly climbed to the top of astronomers’ wish lists for worlds ...

Astronomers have recently detected potential signs of microbial life on the exoplanet K2-18b, an ocean-covered world located ...

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

This artist’s concept shows the volatile red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 and its four most closely orbiting planets, all of which ...

Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time, if more detailed analyses verify preliminary observations from the James Webb ...

When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star's ...

Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system. In 1995, a gas giant named 51 Pegasi b, which orbits a star similar to Earth's sun, etched its name in history as the first exoplanet ever ...

Researchers at Cornell University have developed the first-ever reflectance spectra — essentially a color-coded key — of the ...