The James Webb Telescope is reshaping our understanding of distant worlds, revealing exoplanet atmospheres, potential ...

What can sub-Neptune exoplanets teach astronomers about finding life beyond Earth? This is what a recent study published in ...

Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far.

This artist’s concept shows the volatile red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 and its four most closely orbiting planets, all of which ...

Scientists may have identified an exoplanet with the potential to support life, located 120 light-years from Earth. The planet, known as K2-18b, is classified as a Super-Earth, measuring approximately ...

TESS launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 in 2018 to study exoplanets that transit their star from our perspective, meaning they ...

A new exoplanet candidate has just burst onto the scene, and it may be one of the best alien worlds yet on which to search for extraterrestrial life. It's just 18 light-years away: a super-Earth named ...

A newly detected super-Earth just 20 light-years away is giving scientists one of the most promising chances yet to search ...

Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system that most often orbit a star. Astronomers have managed to bring an exoplanet into unprecedented focus by using a technique the researchers call 3D ...

The baby planet has created a gap in the ring of material as it grows into a fully-realized planet. A baby planet has been spotted nestled inside a ring around its young parent star, offering a ...

"This makes TOI-2267 the first binary system known to host transiting planets around both of its stars." Using NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), ...