Astronomers have uncovered the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere surrounding a rocky exoplanet, TOI-561 b, orbiting ...

NASA ’s James Webb Space Telescope has found the strongest evidence yet that a small, rocky planet outside our solar system ...

An ultra-hot rocky exoplanet may be wrapped in a dense atmosphere, defying expectations about what small planets can sustain.

The hunt is on for terrestrial exoplanets in habitable zones, and some of the most promising candidates were discovered ...

Fresh JWST data and new models challenge methane hints on TRAPPIST-1e, showing the gas would be rare, unstable, and difficult ...

To test this idea, the new study looks at an exoplanet known as VHS 1256b. It has a mass of around 20 Jupiters and is one of ...

Of the seven Earth-sized worlds orbiting the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, one planet in particular has attracted the attention ...

JWST has captured exoplanet Tylos shedding its atmosphere into two giant tails, revealing how extreme stellar radiation can ...

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

An exoplanet covered in so many volcanoes that its molten surface radiates a fiery red has been discovered orbiting a star 66 light-years from Earth. That sentence may ring a bell for Star Wars fans, ...

"Barnard b is one of the lowest-mass exoplanets known and one of the few known with a mass less than that of Earth." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

A new study using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope provides a rare glimpse of conditions on the surface of a rocky planet orbiting a star beyond the Sun. The study, published today in the ...