The Lazuli Space Telescope will be the first private space telescope. It's the brainchild of Eric Schmidt, Google's former ...

Researchers in Geneva, Switzerland make an incredible discovery of exoplanets that may be home to extraterrestrial life. See ...

Some exoplanets absorb almost every ray of visible light that reaches them. Their darkness is revealing unexpected clues about the strange atmospheres surrounding distant worlds.

Evidence for the possible super-Earth has been lurking for years in NASA data. Pavel Rabtsevich found it—with a little help ...

The CRIRES+ instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has been used to measure the supersonic jet winds on gas giant exoplanet WASP-127b. Credit: ESO ...

Scientists detect radio signals from an exoplanet 63 light-years away, revealing a magnetic field far stronger than Earth’s.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed the uneven shape of WASP-17b’s atmosphere, showing how extreme heat and ...

A scorching lava planet 280 light-years away has surprised astronomers by apparently maintaining a thick atmosphere despite ...

For the first time, scientists have mapped the true shape of a distant exoplanet orbiting a star 1,000 light-years away.

Astronomers say they have detected radio emissions originating directly from a planet outside the solar system for the first time, potentially opening a new way to investigate the magnetic fields and ...

Elon Musk’s ambition to establish a self-sustaining civilization of one million people on Mars faces skepticism from Nobel ...