A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

The post Astronomers Spot The Closest Ever Identified Exoplanet In A Habitable Zone, And It’s In Our Nearest Star System ...

The detection of a potentially rocky world around a nearby star opens up unprecedented prospects for the atmospheric ...

Scientists use James Webb Space Telescope to make 1st 3D map of exoplanet — and it's so hot, it rips apart water ...

Using NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), astronomers have discovered three ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers have detected a new exoplanet ...

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a main guiding principle. “All life on Earth needs liquid water, no matter ...

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

Researchers have developed a new technology that can shape the spectrum of light emitted from a laser frequency comb across ...

About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 b ushered in a new era of exoplanet research.

How do moons form around gas giant planets? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes ...

A distant exoplanet might have an atmosphere similar to Earth's, early observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggest. It is part of a group of planets orbiting a star called TRAPPIST ...