NASA's upcoming Pandora mission will complement the James Webb Space Telescope by making it easier to detect water in the atmospheres of distant exoplanets.

"Temperamental" stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant ...

Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet that might have favorable conditions for liquid water. This planet, HD 20794 d, ...

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

Discover how NASA’s James Webb Telescope unveiled GJ 1214 b, an exoplanet possibly rich in water vapour and hidden beneath ...

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

Astronomers who identified HD 20794 d say its proximity to its host star and orbital pattern suggest it could hold water.

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

Using 20 years of data from the Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have discovered that turbulent stars could be corrupting ...

An international research team with Swiss participation has discovered an exoplanet with a special property. According to the ...

With winds blowing at 20,500 mph, "the planet has complex weather patterns just like Earth and other planets of our own ...