More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...

These rather small planets are a stone's throw from Earth in galactic terms, but were too small for previous instruments to ...

Astronomers have identified an ultra-light exoplanet orbiting the star TOI-1453, located 250 light-years from Earth. While ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

Basant's team, which also includes a researcher from Heidelberg University, found the exoplanets using the 8-meter Gemini ...

Astronomers have examined infant planets orbiting a star 370 light-years away, seeing the exomoon forming disks of gas and ...

A chemical found in the atmosphere around an exoplanet that leads researchers to believe the planet may harbor life is called ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

Researchers are using basalt spectra to study exoplanets and search for water with the James Webb Space Telescope. By ...

What can a star’s behavior teach scientists about the formation and evolution of sub-Neptune exoplanets, which comprise one ...