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

The search for habitable exoplanets is a key priority and sits at the pinnacle of exoplanet science. The science community ...

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

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

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

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

Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme — triggering stellar flares from their own parent stars by being too clingy.

Last week the James Webb Space Telescope captured a direct image of what they believe to be a previously unknown exoplanet ...

When HIP 67522 b was discovered, it was the youngest known planet orbiting its star in under 10 days. Astronomers were using ...

Exoplanet HIP 67522 b, fluffed up to the size of Jupiter, circles so close to its star that it’s triggering violent flares — ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of an exoplanet for the first time since it began science operations in July of 2022. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.