Researchers came to the conclusion that super-Earths can exist as far from their host star as our gas giants are from the sun ...

A distant flicker of light from a star can reveal more than you might expect. In fact, a brief, subtle brightening in the sky ...

Using data from space telescopes and other instruments, astronomers, cosmologists, and astrophysicists are able to deduce and ...

New research suggests that the largest cosmic structure is even bigger and closer to Earth than we knew. It goes against ...

The discovery was made on a massive exoplanet known as K2-18b that for years has captivated scientists searching for life ...

The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets with twice the diameter of Earth.

A new approach suggests that a tiny spin of the universe throughout space might reconcile those conflicting numbers. If the ...

Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies these rocky, or "terrestrial," worlds are far more common than was ...