This planet lies about 500 light years from the Earth and its 10 percent larger than our living planet. Though it has a ...

Astronomers are revealing the dramatic past of a distant red giant star by analyzing the faint rhythmic pulses hidden in its ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, scheduled for launch between 2026 and 2027, is already surprising scientists with ...

For the first time, astronomers have followed a massive coronal mass ejection (CME) from a star other than our Sun as it ...

This collection celebrates the 30 th anniversary of the detection of the first planet outside our Solar System orbiting a main sequence star. Experts reflect on the impact of various milestones in ...

Astronomers say they spotted signs of a giant explosion releasing from a star beyond our solar system, one powerful enough to destroy a planet’s atmosphere.

A new super-Earth GJ 251 c, located a mere 20 light-years from Earth, is shaping up as one of the most promising prospects to search for life beyond our solar system. The planet c ...

An exoplanet is what we call planets that exist outside of our own solar system. The first one was discovered in 1992, but as we get more powerful and precise telescopes and instruments, scientists ...

Stronger links between researchers who work on Earth’s and other planets’ atmospheres, and between the experimental, modelling and observational communities, will help to interpret the astronomical ...

Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like star. The Nobel-winning discovery, later published in the pages of Nature, ...

"It was just a matter of time before we found them." Thirty years ago, on Oct. 6, 1995, the very first exoplanet to be discovered around a sun-like star was revealed. Called 51 Pegasi b, it was a ...