If the discovery is confirmed, this will be the fastest extrasolar planet, "exoplanet," system ever seen. "We think this is a so-called super-Neptune world orbiting a low-mass star at a distance ...

NASA discovered five "ultra-short-period" exoplanets orbiting their stars in under 24 hours, defying speed limits and challenging current planetary formation theories. A gas giant that orbits its ...

A small NASA exoplanet probe now has a ride to Earth orbit. The agency announced on Monday afternoon (Feb. 10) that it has picked SpaceX to launch Pandora, a 716-pound (325-kilogram) satellite ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) White dwarf stars may host more habitable exoplanets than previously thought. A study using a 3D global climate model found that exoplanets orbiting white dwarfs ...

And astonishingly, it's managed to drag its exoplanet along, as the poor world hangs on for dear life. "We think this is a so-called super-Neptune world orbiting a low-mass star at a distance that ...

This result, drawing on more than two decades of observations, opens a window to future studies of Earth-like exoplanets that may have conditions suitable for life. Dr. Cretignier first identified ...

NASA is set to launch its latest mission, Pandora, in 2025 to study the atmospheres of distant exoplanets. With the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) oversubscribed, Pandora will play a crucial ...

We have never directly detected volcanic activity outside our solar system, in part because current telescopes aren’t powerful enough to take images of exoplanets’ surfaces. We might be able ...

But those powerful gales are nothing compared to the supersonic winds that astronomers have just discovered on the giant exoplanet WASP-127b. Reaching up to a whopping 20,505 miles per hour—or ...

This gas giant is nearly three billion miles away. But scientists have found planets way beyond our own solar system. Known as exoplanets, these make Neptune seem close indeed. The closest exoplanet – ...

Researchers from the University of Oxford have discovered an exoplanet dubbed HD 20794 d that could have the right conditions for life. More than six times as massive as Earth, scientists are ...

A research team may have discovered a star with an exoplanet that is so fast that both will leave the Milky Way. A group of astronomers may have discovered a planetary system that races through ...