The 'hot Neptune' planet, named LTT 9779b, is so scorching that its atmosphere should have evaporated, according to ...

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

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

Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

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

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 have been found ...

New research points toward an exoplanet that may be capable of supporting life 20 light-years away from Earth.

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

WASP-121b is like nothing in the solar system, raining liquid metal and being puffy like a marshmallow. The origins of these ...

Astronomers who identified HD 20794 d say its proximity to its host star and orbital pattern suggest it could hold water.