Astronomers have spent decades trying to find Earth-like planets beyond our solar system. These worlds are small, cold, and ...

A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday. Located about ...

A giant planet 124 light years from Earth has yielded the strongest evidence yet that extraterrestrial life may be thriving ...

The boundless potential of astronomical discovery contrasts sharply with the backwardness and reaction promoted by Trump and ...

"This measurement of the planet population from planets somewhat larger than Earth all the way to the size of Jupiter and ...

BD+05 4868 Ab is located about 140 light years away from Earth and has a surface temperature of 1,600 deg C. Read more at ...

U.S. team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet's atmosphere long considered to be "biosignatures" ...

The James Webb Space Telescope spotted possible signatures for life in an exoplanet's atmosphere. Still, researchers caution ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new ... Webb Telescope Captures Its ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what ...

About 5,800 planets beyond our solar system, called exoplanets, have been discovered since the 1990s. Of those, only four have been observed disintegrating in orbit, as this one is. This planet is ...