Now, researchers at Harvard and the University of Oregon say they’ve detected something that has never before been ...

The discovery could help astronomers determine whether an outer world is suitable for life.

Stellar flares are important tracers of magnetic activity and can significantly influence the characterization of exoplanet ...

Astronomers have detected radio signals originating from an exoplanet for the first time. While this is a significant ...

Astronomers have confirmed the youngest exoplanet detected so far, offering a rare glimpse into the earliest stages of ...

Exoplanets are exotic worlds orbiting distant stars far beyond our solar system. Ever since the first ones were discovered in ...

The South African MeerKAT radio telescope, situated 90 km outside the small Northern Cape town of Carnarvon, is a precursor ...

Brown dwarfs occupy the mass regime between planets and stars. In systems containing both a star and a substellar companion (be it a brown dwarf or an exoplanet), a third object orbiting the companion ...

(ShaoChen Yang/Moment/Getty Images) There's no proof of other life beyond Earth yet, but scientists are constantly looking out and listening for signs that we're not actually alone in the Universe.

Approximately 63 light-years from Earth lies a planetary system so young that it's less than 1 percent as old as our solar system. It is called Beta Pictoris, and—as far as astronomers have ...

The gas giant Beta Pictoris b, about 63 light-years away, has the mass of 10 Jupiters and a magnetic field thousands of times as strong as Earth’s.