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

"The climate of this planet is extreme and nothing like that of Earth. The planet's dayside is so hot that elements typically thought of as 'metal' are vaporized into the atmosphere." ...

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

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

Earth's unusual orbit through hot and cold conditions tests the limits of tolerability for any known lifeforms.

derived from "TESS Investigation – Demographics of Young Exoplanets." Madyson Barber, a graduate researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says the odd nickname is "an ...

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, astronomers have detected more than 7,000 of them in our galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered. At the same time, ...

Now, it’s time to add another to the list. A team of researchers have confirmed an Earth-like planet named HD 20794 d, they report in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. The exoplanet is ...

“This result is really important for the next decade of exoplanet research, because eyes are shifting toward this population of stars,” said astronomy doctoral student Sheila Sagear at the ...

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more than ... The results are published today in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. ‘‘Are we alone in the Universe?’’ ...

The exoplanet weighs about the same as 30 Earths, while Jupiter weighs more than 300, making WASP-107b one of the least dense known planets, NASA said. That was odd because it is less hot and less ...

Astronomy is arguably the oldest science, and has featured strongly throughout the history of Nature — the first quasar, the first exoplanet, the nature of spiral nebulae, to name but a few of ...