It's just 18 light-years away: a super-Earth named GJ 251c with a minimum mass about 3.84 times that of our own planet. The ...

If alien life exists on the newly discovered JG 251 c, we could know about it in the next 10 years.

Scientists have uncovered one of the few potentially habitable worlds close enough and positioned just right for the next ...

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

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

Dr. Eric Ford, director of Penn State’s Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds, explains the search for planets beyond our solar system, focusing on those in the “habitable zone” where liquid ...

Webb just spotted a carbon-rich moon factory 625 light-years away, revealing how moons like ours may have first taken shape.

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery with the identification of TOI-715 b, a super-Earth exoplanet located 137 light-years away in the constellation Volans. This planet, found using NASA’s ...

Astronomers have generated the first three-dimensional map of a planet orbiting another star, revealing an atmosphere with ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

Many planets featured in Star Trek TNG share traits that scientists now look for when identifying exoplanets: rocky terrain, ...

Scientists have studied our solar system, which is home to eight major planets and more than 400 known moons orbiting six of them, to understand the new phase of the moon formation observed around ...