Astronomers have observed a rocky planet rapidly disintegrating near its star, trailing a comet-like tail of mineral dust.

The planet orbits its host star in just 30.5 hours, losing a mass of material roughly equal to Mount Everest each time ...

As the James Webb telescope becomes operational, we'll soon start receiving more data than ever before on the exoplanets nearest to us. The only problem is.... what ARE the exoplanets nearest to us?

Astronomers have observed the rocky exoplanet BD+05 4868 Ab disintegrating as it orbits near its host star. The planet, now ...

About 5,800 planets beyond our solar system, called exoplanets, have been discovered since the 1990s. Of those, only four ...

Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is ...

Astronomers have been trying to discover evidence that worlds exist around stars other than our Sun since the 19th century.

This exoplanet and its host star are also the “closest” to Earth, offering an excellent excuse to put NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to work investigating the composition of the planet ...

Astronomers announced Thursday that they had detected the most promising "hints" of potential life on a planet beyond our ...

The astronomers spotted the planet using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an MIT-led mission that ...