Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to ...

"There are hundreds of billions of alien worlds in the Milky Way galaxy. And scientists have already discovered and confirmed ...

Exoplanets can be quite different from Earth, but occasionally researchers find one that gives a sneak peak into what the ...

Astronomers have discovered a rocky Earth-like planet around a white dwarf star, hinting at our planet's future about eight billion years from now.

Much of the understanding of the seventh planet comes from a brief flyby nearly 40 years ago, which researchers now say ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf 4,000 light years away, raising questions about Earth ...

When we think of exoplanets that may be able to support life, we home in on the habitable zone. A habitable zone is a region ...

The exoplanet orbits its host star in just over five days, making its "year" only a fraction of an Earth month. Its path ...

While the James Webb Space Telescope has detected CO2 and methane on K2-18b, these gases are regularly produced by non-living processes.

Located 690 light years away from the Sun, the newest discovered planet is third most dense sub-Saturn class located at the ...

Our team has now provided tentative evidence for a sulphur-rich atmosphere on a world that’s 1.5 times the size of Earth and located 35 light years away. If confirmed, it would be the smallest known ...