A new probe in development known as GIRO represents a low-cost step toward unlocking the secrets of exoplanets, all through ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has detected three new hot ...

With 10 times the mass of our planet, and spending only part of its orbit in the habitable zone, Kepler-725c is very ...

An exoplanet 60 light-years away from Earth, known as 14 Herculis c, is thought to be the coldest one yet found, researchers ...

Thus, there must be billions of planets that lack intelligent forms of life; but it is no surprise that some must have intelligent life: “There’s at least 100 billion planets in just our galaxy,” says ...

"By studying these planets, we can better understand how planets form in general, a bit like peering into the past of our ...

Scientists have discovered a giant planet orbiting a tiny red dwarf star, something they believed wasn t even possible. The ...

Whatever the origin story, TOI-6894b is leading the ranks of other known gas giants orbiting small and faint stars that astronomers want to study. Scientists also have their eyes on LHS 3154 b, GJ ...

Astronomers have captured silicate clouds and a mysterious disk around two giant young exoplanets, revealing surprises that ...

A planetary system described as abnormal, chaotic, and strange by researchers has come into clearer view with NASA's James ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have captured breathtakingly detailed images of two giant exoplanets ...

Dusty clouds made of sand—that may rain iron—blanket a giant planet orbiting a young, sun-like star just 310 light-years from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed. The discovery was made ...