As more and more exoplanets are discovered throughout the galaxy, scientists find some that defy explanation—at least for ...

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 ...

After marking the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the first exoplanet around a sun-like star, we now look forward to ...

Researchers have uncovered three Earth-sized planets in the binary system TOI-2267, offering fresh insights into planetary ...

TOI-2267 consists of two stars, both orbited by exoplanets roughly the size of Earth. This is particularly exciting for ...

Stronger links between researchers who work on Earth’s and other planets’ atmospheres, and between the experimental, ...

Why is it important to know about exoplanets having their atmospheres stripped while orbiting F-type stars? This is what a ...

"This finding is the first direct evidence of water’s interstellar journey from clouds to the materials that form planetary ...

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.

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 study revealed that TOI-2267 has two closely bound stars orbiting each other, and the third planet transits the companion ...

In just a few decades, humanity went from knowing only our eight planets to cataloguing over 6,000 exoplanets orbiting ...