An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star.

Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...

"The climate of this planet is extreme and nothing like that of Earth. The planet's dayside is so hot that elements typically ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

New research points toward an exoplanet that may be capable of supporting life 20 light-years away from Earth.

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

NASA is set to launch its latest mission, Pandora, in fall 2025 to study the atmospheres of distant exoplanets. With the ...

Data from the Gaia spacecraft shows that even unassuming stars can host monumental companions like massive planets.

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

An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 have been found ...

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

South Africa has taken one giant leap into exoplanet discovery capabilities and astronomical research with the launch of the ...