As planets pass in front of their parent stars as viewed from Earth, they cause a tiny dip in the amount of starlight we ...

The exoplanet – a planet outside our solar system – has a mass six times greater than that of Earth, and orbits in the ...

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

If an extraterrestrial civilization existed with technology comparable to ours, would they be able to detect Earth?

With an assist from the NEID spectrograph, a team of astronomers have confirmed the existence of exoplanet Gaia-4b—one of the ...

"The climate of this planet is extreme and nothing like that of Earth. The planet's dayside is so hot that elements typically thought of as 'metal' are vaporized into the atmosphere." ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

Data from the Gaia spacecraft shows that even unassuming stars can host monumental companions like massive planets.

Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...

NASA has been monitoring a never-before-seen planet in its solar system, which is eight times the size of Earth. The ...

The discovery of a potentially habitable 'super-Earth' exoplanet, HD 20794 d, was published in the scientific journal ...

A research team led by Dr. Sofia Sheikh of the SETI Institute, in collaboration with the Characterizing Atmospheric ...