Scientists got a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons could potentially form.

With the discovery of ever more exoplanets—over 6,000 now—scientists, of course, want to know if they are habitable for life.

The striking thing about this is that repeating the procedure on the star turned up no evidence of carbon-based chemicals, ...

How will NASA's upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) mission differentiate Earth-sized exoplanets from other ...

It wasn’t until the ‘90s that our astronomical powers advanced enough to confirm the existence of worlds around other stars.

This brings us to the complexity of NASA's announcement. "Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by ...

St. Andrews University physicists who looked at the planet said that the research conjures "two possible explanations." ...

A new study rules out the existence of global oceans of water on Neptune-like planets such as K2-18b, finding their water ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets around a young ...

Hot, small and old—exoplanet TOI-561 b is just about the worst place to look for alien air. Scientists using JWST found it ...

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

Some classes of stars create light elements, such as oxygen and silicon; others also craft heavier ones, such as iron and ...