A new NASA study has discovered a new exoplanet that is almost the size of Earth and orbits a star that's the same type as the Sun. Unfortunately, this promising candidate is also tidally locked and ...

NASA has released its first image of a planet outside of our solar system. Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to take a direct image of the exoplanet, described as a "gas giant." NASA ...

Planet hunters have grown used to strange worlds, but a handful of discoveries now point to something even more radical: ...

A depiction of a gas giant planet with rings orbiting a distant star. Astronomers detected hundreds more new worlds beyond the solar system this year and worked to better understand what makes them ...

A team of scientists is developing a "quantum-sensitive" device that could capture direct images of Earth-like exoplanets — something astronomers tend to consider so difficult it's nearly impossible.

Gliese 12 b, a Venus-sized world located just 40 light-years away, presents a promising target for studying planetary atmospheres and potential habitability. Reading time 4 minutes A newly discovered ...

How do the characteristics of Neptune-like exoplanets, also known as exo-Neptunes, differ from each other? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy and Astrophysics hopes to address as an ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS, the University of Warwick, and the Canary Islands ...

We sometimes throw around terms like "Earth-like" and "potentially habitable" when talking about exoplanets, but a newly discovered world just 40 light-years away earns the distinction. Two ...