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

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered that aging stars in their so-called ...

Exoplanet scientists are eagerly awaiting the discovery of an atmosphere around a terrestrial exoplanet. Not a thin, tenuous, ...

A new study using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has overturned long-held beliefs about mini-Neptune ...

The Kepler space telescope is the source of more exoplanet discoveries than any other telescope, so why haven't we heard ...

A new study has uncovered how exoplanets, orbiting too close to their stars to retain water, are surprisingly water-rich.

Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island have taken the closest-ever look at the dusty regions where planets form, offering new insight into the earliest stages of ...

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

In a stunning moment of space history, a Soviet probe sent back the first-ever close-up images of Venus' mysterious surface.

Astronomers have discovered that aging stars may be devouring their closest giant planets as they swell into red giants.

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 ...