Super-Earth TOI-561b is about 40 times closer to its host star than Mercury is to the sun.
Want to be a top notch candidate for hosting alien life? Then there's a few key requirements you should be aware of: Ideally, ...
The planet formed 50 million years after the dinosaurs died, making it incredibly young in cosmic terms.
"We are only beginning to discover the true complexity of these worlds." ...
Dubbed HD 143811 AB b, the interstellar entity is a gas giant that’s located some 446 light-years away from Earth in a galaxy ...
Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave discuss an Earth-sized exoplanet, how ant colonies deal with disease and a possible link between volcanoes and the Black Death.
Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have detected the strongest evidence yet for an atmosphere on a rocky ...
An "extra exceptional" Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns, has been discovered. Astronomers say the "huge" new world ...
Scientists looked into data gathered by GPI in 2016 and located a planet orbiting two stars, 446 light-years away from Earth.
Using the Webb telescope’s powerful Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, the team detected a ...
Fresh JWST data and new models challenge methane hints on TRAPPIST-1e, showing the gas would be rare, unstable, and difficult ...
Of the seven Earth-sized worlds orbiting the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, one planet in particular has attracted the attention ...