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

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

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 ...

An international team of astronomers has identified a rare, potentially habitable super-Earth just 19.5 light-years from ...

Using JWST, scientists mapped WASP-18b’s atmosphere in 3D, revealing blazing regions where water molecules split apart.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured an extraordinary and unprecedented sight: a moon-forming disk surrounding a young, giant exoplanet located roughly 625 light years ...

What: New research suggests Uranus’s moon Ariel once hosted, or may still contain, a deep subsurface ocean beneath its icy crust. Guests: Planetary scientist Dr. Ca ...

Astronomers at UCL and Warwick discovered that aging stars devour nearby planets as they swell into red giants. NASA’s TESS data shows far fewer close-orbiting worlds around older stars, suggesting ...

What's the best way to reveal what an exoplanet is made of? Wait for it to get gravitationally shredded and engulfed by its ...

GRAVITY+ Project: This project, led by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, combines the four 8m ESO Very ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope produced the first 3D atmospheric map of exoplanet WASP-18b, an ultra-hot Jupiter 400 light-years away.