Imagine stepping onto a distant exoplanet, where vast alien oceans stretch beyond the horizon. Based on data from missions ...

Standing on Proxima b would be unlike anything we’ve ever experienced. Just 4.24 light-years away, this exoplanet orbits the ...

Astronomers have achieved a first in exoplanet hunting by using the Hubble Space Telescope images to investigate a mysterious event that could reveal the existence of a “rogue planet” drifting through ...

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien life in the glow of a distant planet. Other scientists were quick to ...

A fluffy, Jupiter-sized planet may be triggering deadly flares from its star, leading to the slow destruction of its own ...

A unique gas giant has been confirmed through global teamwork, offering insights into planetary formation and future ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission is mapping the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, turning raw space data into a public tool for ...

When HIP 67522 b was discovered, it was the youngest known planet orbiting its star in under 10 days. Astronomers were using ...

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

When astronomers first discovered exoplanets, they found massive ones orbiting large stars. The technology to detect smaller planets around low-mass, dim red dwarfs took time to develop. By the ...

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

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