Thousands of exoplanets have been discovered, only a select few show promise. Here we look at some of the most habitable ...

Astronomers have discovered a strikingly unusual exoplanet: one which orbits its host stars in a totally new way. The planet ...

Scientists from Cambridge University have identified strong signs of alien life using the James Webb Space Telescope on ...

As astronomers delve deeper into the diversity of worlds orbiting distant stars, a new study suggests comparing populations ...

An exoplanet has been discovered orbiting Barnard's star by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Barnard ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led study modeled the chemistry of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet between Earth and Neptune in size, ...

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 ...

For centuries, planets beyond our solar system—called exoplanets—existed only in theory and science fiction. It seemed nearly impossible to detect planets light-years away, since the ...

It's not the first time researchers have found a planet like the one in Star Wars, but this alien world has a particularly ...

Exoplanets orbit stars outside of our solar system. Sub-Neptunes refer to planets between the size of our solar system's largest rocky planet, Earth, and the smallest gas giant, Neptune.