A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

Other exoplanets are just as strange ... of the exoplanet may be as low as minus 220 degrees Celius (or 364 degrees Fahrenheit), making it the coolest exoplanet discovered and not just because of its ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

WASP-121b is like nothing in the solar system, raining liquid metal and being puffy like a marshmallow. The origins of these ...

Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Scientists say they may have discovered an exoplanet capable of supporting life.

Astronomers discovered the exoplanet in 2016, a gas giant that’s slightly larger than Jupiter with a fraction of its mass, ...

The record-breaking winds are circling the nearby "puffy" exoplanet WASP-127b, and are traveling six times faster than the ...

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. Sign up Most of the exoplanets that have been found are within a small ...

Staring up at the night sky, you might see thousands of stars sprinkled above the horizon. It feels as though you can see so ...

An exoplanet about 800 light-years away is spilling its guts into space, and new observations with the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, have let astronomers read the entrails, astronomers report ...