On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

Our circumstances here on the wondrous, life-supporting Earth can give us a false understanding of what the universe is ...

Of all the exoplanets astronomers have found with ages less than 50 million years, TOI 1227 b stands out for having the ...

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet, TOI-2431 b, on a death spiral. The planet orbits its star in just five hours and 22 minutes, making it an exoplanet with one of the shortest orbit ...

Astronomers have uncovered major size errors in TESS planet data, suggesting we’ve found fewer Earth-like exoplanets than we believed.

I learned that potential signs of life were discovered on an exoplanet called K2-18b, which is 120 light-years away from Earth.

A young planet named HIP 67522 causes violent eruptions on its star, dramatically accelerating the loss of its own atmosphere ...

The alien world orbits a dim, reddish ball of gas called a red dwarf star in the northern constellation Lyra. Scientists ...

NASA has found a new “Super Earth” planet just 154 light-years away that’s sending out a strange, repeating signal. The planet, named TOI‑1846 b, is about twice as wide as Earth and around four times ...

NASA has uncovered a new ‘Super Earth’ planet just 154-lightyears away that has been flashing a mysterious signal. The planet ...

Proxima Centauri b is the closest known exoplanet to our solar system that is thought to be within the habitable zone of its star.

Solar flares, blasts of plasma gasses of solar energy might shape the short-term weather on distant planets according to a ...