On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

Proxima Centauri b is the closest known exoplanet to our solar system that is thought to be within the habitable zone of its star.

Proxima Centauri b is the closest known exoplanet that could be in the habitable zone of its star. Therefore, it has garnered ...

A close-in exoplanet is triggering stellar flares and self-destructing. This is the first direct evidence of planet-star ...

Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...

Gavin Wang, a rising senior studying physics and mathematics, has been named a 2025 Astronaut Scholar by the Astronaut ...

A new gas giant world discovered by citizen scientists using data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS is cool, ...

Last week the James Webb Space Telescope captured a direct image of what they believe to be a previously unknown exoplanet ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme. At least, that's what astronomers found when ...

The Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey (Ariel) telescope is to launch in 2029 and spend years ...

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...