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

It was just a rock, but when Timothy Lyons picked it up, he knew the Earth had stories to tell, and he wanted to find out ...

Exoplanets have captured the imagination of public and scientists alike and, as the search continues for more, researchers ...

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

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

Astronomers have officially confirmed the existence of HD 20794 d, a super-Earth located just 20 light-years away, with ...

When an exoplanet is discovered, scientists are quick to describe it and explain its properties. Now, we know of thousands of ...

Abstract One of the most characterizable types of rocky exoplanets for the coming decades are magma worlds, those with extensive lava or magma oceans at their surfaces, due to their hot, extended ...

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

An international team, including researchers from UNIGE and NCCR PlanetS, has discovered a super-Earth, referred to as HD ...

Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as workers make progress in the ...