Astronomers have detected a massive, Ultra-Hot Jupiter that’s getting dangerously close to its star. It’s more massive than Jupiter and orbits its star more quickly than Mercury orbits the Sun. There ...

Astronomers have uncovered major size errors in TESS planet data, suggesting we’ve found fewer Earth-like exoplanets than we believed.

Exploring the quest for alien life through Bayesian analysis, emphasizing the importance of asking the right questions in ...

The alien world orbits a dim, reddish ball of gas called a red dwarf star in the northern constellation Lyra. Scientists ...

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet, TOI-2431 b, on a death spiral. The planet orbits its star in just five hours and 22 minutes, making it an exoplanet with one of the shortest orbit ...

WASP-121b, an already unusual planet, might have a remote origin that explains some of its peculiar properties—from iron rain ...

Our circumstances here on the wondrous, life-supporting Earth can give us a false understanding of what the universe is ...

NASA has uncovered a new ‘Super Earth’ planet just 154-lightyears away that has been flashing a mysterious signal. The planet ...

A young planet named HIP 67522 causes violent eruptions on its star, dramatically accelerating the loss of its own atmosphere ...

WASP-121b is unlike anything in our Solar System. This giant planet orbits its star so closely that it completes a full orbit ...

Solar flares, blasts of plasma gasses of solar energy might shape the short-term weather on distant planets according to a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an exoplanet no one had seen before. This marks a turning point in space ...