Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

The planet is one of the best worlds for follow-up studies to determine whether it could be habitable or not.

Astronomers have identified a newly discovered exoplanet that may orbit within the outer edge of its star's habitable zone, raising fresh questions about how common potentially life-supporting worlds ...

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...

Astronomers have detected an exoplanet candidate around a Sun-like star just 146 light-years away from us.

Aging stars can completely destroy their planets. When a star reaches the end of its life on the main sequence, it goes ...

In one of the most baffling discoveries of the last decade, scientists have found a clue in a cave to how life might survive ...

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 ...

NASA scientists unearthed a new exoplanet, dubbed the 'cold Earth,' from retired Kepler telescope data. This Earth-sized world, HD 137010 b, orbits a distant star and, despite frigid temperatures, may ...

An exoplanet called HD 137010 b might be the closest thing astronomers have ever seen to “Earth 2.0.” The trouble is that it’s only been seen once—and may never be glimpsed again ...

A newly identified Earth-sized exoplanet with a year-long orbit may lie near its star’s habitable zone, but extreme cold could limit its chances of hosting liquid water.

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has once again surprised astronomers by tracking interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, a ...