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

Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half ...

This light curve shows the change in brightness of the ... He called it “one of the most enigmatic exoplanets.” It’s hoped that Janssen can provide insights into the early Earth, Venus ...

Researchers from the University of Oxford have discovered an exoplanet dubbed HD 20794 d ... Best of all, it's just 19.7 light-years away from Earth. This raises the tantalizing possibility ...

As planets pass in front of their parent stars as viewed from Earth, they cause a tiny dip in the amount of starlight we ...

Astronomers may have discovered a scrawny star bolting through the middle of our galaxy with a planet in tow. If confirmed, ...

An exoplanet about 800 light-years away is spilling its guts into space, and new observations with the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, have let astronomers read the entrails, astronomers ...

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS ... Baliwal's team has identified a transit signal in the light curve of TOI-6038 A—a late F-type star about 578 light-years away.

Although exoplanet science is on firm ground now ... When Charbonneau plotted the light curves for the first of those nights, he says, “lo and behold, there was this little 1% deviation that ...

Since the discovery of the first planet outside the solar system in the mid-1990s, the catalog of extrasolar planets, or "exoplanets ... Located around 858 light-years from Earth, WASP-121b ...

Exoplanet LTT9779 b, which orbits a star about 262 light-years from Earth, is so reflective it acts almost like a mirror, the European Space Agency (ESA) said in a press release. This planet's hot ...