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

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

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

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has ... TOI-6054 b orbits the host every 7.5 days at a distance of 0.077 AU from it, and its equilibrium ...

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 suggests that life could thrive on exoplanets with unique atmospheres, expanding the definition of habitability ...

Kepler found over 2,600 exoplanets mostly in one a small region of the night sky. It also used data from the Gaia telescope, which is measuring the distance to billions of stars in the galaxy.

When the first exoplanet was discovered in 1995, Sara Seager and Dave Charbonneau were graduate students at Harvard. Both were studying topics totally unrelated to planets orbiting distant stars.

It finds exoplanets by detecting a slight dimming ... “Although this planet orbits very close to its star, at a distance about 10 times shorter than that of Mercury around our Sun, the amount ...

An international research team with Swiss participation has discovered an exoplanet with a special property. According to the University of Geneva, the planet allows new hypotheses about ...