One hundred twenty light-years from us, there is an exoplanet that can potentially host life. It’s called K2-18b, and it’s ...

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 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected clouds made of silicates, similar to sand here on Earth, as well as water, ...

For the study, the researchers made several remarkable and new discoveries: the two M-type stars that comprise the binary ...

Could a recently discovered "super-Earth" have the potential temperature and conditions to sustain life? The new exoplanet is situated "fairly close to us" -- only 137 light-years away -- and orbits ...

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

"The complexity of the exo-Neptunian landscape provides offers a unique window onto the processes involved in the formation and evolution of planetary systems." ...

Astronomers have discovered an alien world that defies every planetary rule with its massive size, low density, and tilted ...

The Penn State team discovered the exoplanet using the Habitable-Zone Planet Finder (HPF), a high-resolution spectrometer at the McDonald Observatory in Texas that operates in the near-infrared ...

NASA has discovered a new super-Earth that has a year only lasting a few hours. The exoplanet K2-141b, was found very close to its orange sun-like star, and has an orbital period of less than one ...

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

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first detailed look at a carbon-rich disk surrounding the exoplanet CT Cha ...