The James Webb Space Telescope has detected clouds made of silicates, similar to sand here on Earth, as well as water, ...

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...

Astronomers have discovered a rocky exoplanet colder than Mars in orbit around a Sun-like star. The world, designated as HD ...

If confirmed, this exoplanet would be the only known rocky world in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star.

Could a recently discovered "super-Earth" have the potential temperature and conditions to sustain life? The new exoplanet is situated "fairly close to us" -- only 137 light-years away -- and orbits ...

Is it a two-for-sun deal. Astronomers were blown away after discovering a bizarre exoplanet that orbits twin stars closer than any ever seen before in a binary star system, per a starry study ...

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 ...

Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...

A molten lava world cloaked in a thick envelope of vaporized rock could be the strongest evidence we have yet of a rocky exoplanet with an atmosphere beyond our Solar System. The planet TOI-561 b is ...

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

NASA has discovered a new super-Earth that has a year only lasting a few hours. The exoplanet K2-141b, was found very close to its orange sun-like star, and has an orbital period of less than one ...