The powerful James Webb Space Telescope has captured a series of remote planets in the HR 8799 star system that are 130 light years away in the Milky Way, and they are very strikin ...

What if we spend decades building advanced telescopes to search for life on other planets and come up emptyhanded? A recent study exploring what we can learn about life in the universe -- even if we ...

VISIONS of leaving Earth and launching humanity further into the cosmos are enough to get anyone starry-eyed. But the ...

Two planets outside the solar system have been identified orbiting a star located nearly 250 light-years away from Earth in ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

Carbon dioxide detected in the atmosphere of exoplanets. The post Carbon Dioxide in Distant Exoplanets Discovered By ...

What can Venus-like exoplanets, also known as exoVenuses, teach us about our own solar system and potentially finding life ...

So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

An international team, including University of Geneva researchers, discovered a super-Earth named TOI-512 b orbiting a star ...

Long before astronomers discovered the first exoplanet in 1992, the idea of worlds orbiting distant stars captivated the minds of academics and dreamers alike. As far back as the 16th century, ...