Proxima Centauri b is the closest known exoplanet that could be in the habitable zone of its star. Therefore, it has garnered ...

The search for extraterrestrial life oscillates between hope and skepticism. A recent study reports promising clues about a ...

A close-in exoplanet is triggering stellar flares and self-destructing. This is the first direct evidence of planet-star ...

A team of international researchers led by Tomas Stolker in the Netherlands has imaged a young gas giant exoplanet near a 12-million-year-old star. The planet is orbiting a star whose planet formation ...

Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme. At least, that's what astronomers found when ...

The exoplanet, a planet beyond our solar system, has been dubbed TWA 7b after NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

The Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey (Ariel) telescope is to launch in 2029 and spend years ...

Last week the James Webb Space Telescope captured a direct image of what they believe to be a previously unknown exoplanet ...

The search for life beyond our planet continues, and one of the most underappreciated tools in an astrobiologist's toolkit is ...

Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...