Proxima Centauri b is the closest known exoplanet that could be in the habitable zone of its star. Therefore, it has garnered ...

A close-in exoplanet is triggering stellar flares and self-destructing. This is the first direct evidence of planet-star ...

The search for extraterrestrial life oscillates between hope and skepticism. A recent study reports promising clues about a ...

A team of international researchers led by Tomas Stolker in the Netherlands has imaged a young gas giant exoplanet near a 12-million-year-old star. The planet is orbiting a star whose planet formation ...

Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme. At least, that's what astronomers found when ...

The exoplanet, a planet beyond our solar system, has been dubbed TWA 7b after NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured ...

The NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, providing the most detailed images and ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

The Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey (Ariel) telescope is to launch in 2029 and spend years ...

Last week the James Webb Space Telescope captured a direct image of what they believe to be a previously unknown exoplanet ...

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...

Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...