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

Astronomers are just beginning to scratch the surface of the complex, and sometimes violent, relationships between planets ...

As Santa sits at the North Pole anticipating the discovery of life on some far-flung planet he might be somewhat nervously scanning the latest scientific literature to see which exoplanets are hot top ...

The largest known exoplanet has seven times the radius of Jupiter, 752 times its mass, and would take five months to ...

One of seven Earth-sized planets, TRAPPIST-1d, caught the attention of NASA researchers and is one of the promising planets ...

A first ever detection of a coronal mass ejection from a small red dwarf could have big consequences for life on any nearby ...

Researchers have pinpointed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby M-dwarf star only 18 light-years away.

A FIERY hell-world that would instantly roast visitors alive has a vast lava ocean – and may be packed with rare gems. The ...

An international team of astronomers, including a specialist from NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), has created the first-ever ...

An Abu Dhabi scientist was part of a team of researchers who mapped temperatures on a planet 400 million light years away - ...

With temperatures reaching almost 2,000 degrees Celsius on its dayside, LTT 9779 is one of the few known planets in the "hot ...

The team discovered that the surface might contain liquid water, an essential ingredient for life. Astronomers from the, Irvine have discovered a planet orbiting within the “habitable zone” of its ...