A fifth planet has been detected within the habitable zone of a neighboring star, where conditions could perhaps support ...

Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has detected a new exoplanet ...

New observations fail to confirm signs of life in the atmosphere of the distant planet K2-18b. They also raise questions ...

According to the paper laying out the research behind the discovery, "TOI-1846b is a super-Earth-sized planet, with a radius ...

Our circumstances here on the wondrous, life-supporting Earth can give us a false understanding of what the universe is ...

Scientists have confirmed a potentially habitable fifth planet in the nearby L 98-59 system, revealing a diverse collection ...

"We found that hundreds of exoplanets are larger than they appear, and that shifts our understanding of exoplanets on a large ...

Explore the discovery of Kepler-139f, a super-Earth exoplanet 36 times Earth's mass, orbiting its star every 355 days. Learn ...

The newly discovered L 98-59 f is a super-Earth, with a minimum mass 2.8 times that of our planet. It follows a nearly ...

The punishing radiation appears to be causing the planet to shed its atmosphere at a rate of at least 1 trillion grams per ...

Astronomers have made an exciting discovery—a new Earth-like exoplanet, Proxima b, located in the Alpha Centauri system. This ...