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

European astronomers report the discovery of a second alien world in the TOI-1422 planetary system located some 500 light ...

For decades, the search for alien life has revolved around a narrow ring around stars where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface. That “habitable zone” remains important, but astronomers are ...

What can sub-Neptune exoplanets teach astronomers about finding life beyond Earth? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes | Space ...

Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far.

Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system that most often orbit a star. Astronomers have managed to bring an exoplanet into unprecedented focus by using a technique the researchers call 3D ...

"This makes TOI-2267 the first binary system known to host transiting planets around both of its stars." Using NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), ...

The baby planet has created a gap in the ring of material as it grows into a fully-realized planet. A baby planet has been spotted nestled inside a ring around its young parent star, offering a ...