An exoplanet is any planet beyond our solar system. Most of them orbit other stars, but some free-floating exoplanets, called ...

How light is light? The James Webb Space Telescope has just been able to directly image a planet so light and faint that, in ...

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...

The search for life beyond our planet continues, and one of the most underappreciated tools in an astrobiologist's toolkit is ...

TOI-6894 b, the largest exoplanet relative to its host star yet seen, doesn’t fit the most widely accepted formation model ...

Studies of 15 M-type stars have revealed new insights into the potential presence of exoplanets. A new study led by ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first exoplanet, astronomers said Wednesday, capturing rare direct images ...

So-called M dwarfs are the most common stars in the Milky Way. A research team has determined around which of them Earth-like ...

Astronomers have located a rare exoplanet on the edge of the Milky Way.

Finding a Saturn-sized world around the young star TWA 7 could pave the way for the Webb space telescope’s direct observation of other exoplanets.

A type of lichen was able to survive extreme UV radiation in the lab, suggesting that ozone protection might not be required for life on exoplanets.

Astronomers spotted exoplanet AT2021ueyL b, a gas giant 3,262 light-years away, using microlensing. It orbits in the galactic ...