The 'hot Neptune' planet, named LTT 9779b, is so scorching that its atmosphere should have evaporated, according to ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been used to shed new light on the exoplanet, GJ 1214 b, which is more than eight times ...

Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

If an extraterrestrial civilization existed with technology comparable to ours, would they be able to detect Earth?

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 have been found ...

New research points toward an exoplanet that may be capable of supporting life 20 light-years away from Earth.

As planets pass in front of their parent stars as viewed from Earth, they cause a tiny dip in the amount of starlight we ...

WASP-121b is like nothing in the solar system, raining liquid metal and being puffy like a marshmallow. The origins of these ...

Astronomers who identified HD 20794 d say its proximity to its host star and orbital pattern suggest it could hold water.

With an assist from the NEID spectrograph, a team of astronomers have confirmed the existence of exoplanet Gaia-4b—one of the ...