A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

The University of Arizona will serve as mission control for a newly launched space telescope designed to study distant ...

There are thousands of known exoplanets, many of which are too dark to directly see, but scientists have made a 3D map by ...

The hunt for worlds beyond our solar system has shifted from counting planets to confronting extremes that strain basic ...

In a zesty new discovery, scientists have unearthed a strange lemon-shaped exoplanet. It is unlike one we have seen before, ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

NASA has confirmed that there are over 6,000 exoplanets floating out there in the galaxy, with another 8,000 exoplanets that ...

Deep beneath the surface of distant exoplanets known as super-Earths, oceans of molten rock may be doing something ...

Surprised astronomers just discovered a world that blurs the line between planet and stellar remnant, hiding in a system ...

A new study modeled the chemistry of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet between Earth and Neptune in size, finding evidence that it could be a giant rocky planet shrouded in a thick, hot atmosphere. TOI-270 d is ...

Discovered by volunteer scientists, this alien planet is out of synch with its siblings ...