The unprecedented discovery of a Jupiter-sized planet in orbit around a white dwarf star suggests it’s possible for…

A new estimate suggests the Milky Way contains more free-floating planets than stars. It’s a big claim, but an…

This first-of-its-kind image reveals a star system just 300 light-years from Earth. It was captured by the Very…

Single-celled organisms like Escherichia coli and yeast can grow and survive in an atmosphere like the kind…

A known exoplanet has disappeared from sight, prompting speculation among astronomers that it was never a planet in…

A team of astronomers shocked the world back in 2016 when they revealed evidence of an Earth-sized exoplanet in the…

For years, a dedicated team of experts has manually sifted through troves of rejected Kepler data in hopes of…

Don’t forget to bring your sturdiest umbrella when you travel to the extra-hot planet WASP-76b, where it may literall…

Astronomers have documented a bizarre cycle of molecular destruction and rebirth on an ultra-hot, Jupiter-like…

Scientists have discovered evidence of a star system that might foreshadow the fate of our own.

A new method might tell scientists whether or not a rocky exoplanet—the kind of exoplanet most similar to Earth—has…

Of the nearly 1 million stars chronicled by the Kepler telescope, few have captured as much attention as KIC…

For the first time ever, astronomers have detected water vapor in the atmosphere of a rocky exoplanet. Intriguingly,…

This hot Jupiter is so close to its host star that gravitational forces are squeezing it into a football-like shape.…

Scientists have detected a signal around an exoplanet that might be the signature of a circumplanetary disk—a disk…

Scientists have discovered a pair of temperate, Earth-sized exoplanet candidates around a nearby star, according to…

A new campaign headed by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) called IAU100 NameExoWorlds will allow each…

NASA’s exoplanet-hunting TESS spacecraft has spotted three comets orbiting a star 64 light-years away, according to…

Scientists have good reason to believe that so-called water worlds—exoplanets with surfaces covered entirely by a…

Scientists have directly observed an exoplanet in a whole new way, thanks to an instrument on the European Southern…