Learn how exoplanets are discovered, what makes planets beyond our solar system unique, and how they drive the ongoing search ...

Exoplanets with Earth-like conditions could host life with structures and functions similar to Earth organisms, despite ...

Recent observations suggest that scientists have identified potential microbial fingerprints in the atmospheres of other planets, raising intriguing questions about the possibility of alien life ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers have detected a new exoplanet ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made the first 3D map of an alien planet's atmosphere, revealing ...

A recently discovered exoplanet, a planet that exists beyond our solar system, called GJ 251c is a super-Earth located just 18 light-years away from our ...

Astronomers now understand that water-rich planets can form internally, even close to stars. A new study reveals that ...

Experiments at high temperatures and pressures reveal chemistry that can generate water on the surface of exoplanets ...

Kenna Hughes-Castleberry is the Content Manager at Space.com. Formerly, she was the Science Communicator at JILA, a physics ...

A coronal mass ejection on another star has been witnessed in its entirety for the first time, revealing that when these ...

The gas giant WASP-18b belongs to a class known as ultra-hot Jupiters — giant, searing, gaseous planets that orbit perilously close to their stars. Researchers used a new technique called ...

A giant exoplanet orbiting a nearby dwarf star has been found in an ideal location for next-generation telescopes to search for potential signs of life. The discovery of a potential “super-Earth” loca ...