As the quest for extraterrestrial life gains momentum, a new era of astrobiology is on the horizon. The Extremely Large ...

The newly discovered world is called GJ 251c and it is a super-Earth orbiting a red dwarf star less than 20 light-years away.

Earth" less than 20 light-years from our own planet is offering scientists new hope in the hunt for other worlds that could ...

The exoplanet, dubbed GJ 251 c, is at least four times larger than our own planet and is likely to be a rocky world located ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and ...

The first picture of a planet outside our solar system may actually depict a swirl of space dust, a new study suggests.

How can timing influence planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical ...

Much like the murky waters of the deep ocean, the unpredictable fluidity of Earth’s atmosphere can distort any light that ...

NASA officials respond to reports claiming an exoplanet-hunting balloon crashed in Texas, with the project’s lead scientist explaining what really happened.

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit ...

Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like star. The Nobel-winning discovery, later published in the pages of Nature, ...