The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

Learn what planet rains molten iron and which planet has two moons like Tatooine in Star Wars.

So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

Researchers suggest that certain gases detected in the atmospheres of exoplanets could be key indicators in the search for ...

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...

A recent study published in Astrophysical Journal Letters proposes an unprecedented method for detecting life beyond our ...

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

The European Space Agency announced Thursday the Gaia spacecraft was turned off after a decade of data gathering.

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...