NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been used to discover Earth-size planet TOI 700 e. It is "orbiting ...

An international team of scientists used expertise, patience, microlensing, and a little bit of luck to make an exceptionally rare discovery.

Astronomers have added two more exoplanets to a growing study aimed at finding out whether rocky worlds near small, faint ...

Astronomers have located a rare exoplanet on the edge of the Milky Way.

Astronomers have detected a rare gas giant exoplanet in the outer reaches of the Milky Way, marking only the third such ...

Mercury doesn't give up its secrets easily. The smallest planet in our solar system is also one of the most extreme—a ...

Webb has captured a frigid exoplanet in a wildly tilted orbit, revealing a system shaped by past planetary violence and ...

Webb telescope captured a rare image of 14 Herculis c, one of the coldest exoplanets ever observed, revealing new insights ...

Astronomers have captured silicate clouds and a mysterious disk around two giant young exoplanets, revealing surprises that ...

Tiny radio probe called GIRO may soon reveal what lies beneath alien worlds with 100x more accuracy than current tech.

To reach Earth’s closest star system, Alpha Centauri, scientists are building a laser-powered spacecraft. To pull off ...

Dusty clouds made of sand—that may rain iron—blanket a giant planet orbiting a young, sun-like star just 310 light-years from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed. The discovery was made ...