TOI-561 b, a rocky exoplanet roughly twice the mass of Earth, orbits its host star at a blistering pace, about forty times ...

With sapphire waterfalls, lava rain and orbits around dead stars, these distant worlds push the limits of what’s possible.

James Webb has detected a molecule in the atmosphere of the exoplanet K2-18b that could be linked to life. The molecule, ...

Planets orbiting two stars at once, a world that sparked debate over the possibility of life, and another being vaporized by ...

Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed as a ...

Earth exoplanets orbiting M-dwarf stars, identifying specific candidates that may have retained detectable atmospheres.

A Carnegie-led team of astronomers detected the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky planet beyond our ...

In 1974, the project’s Science Working Group recommended that the telescope be required to resolve details at least one-tenth ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is leading a mission to seek the elements necessary for life on exoplanets in far-away ...

In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

Pandora Mission will attempt to capture the atmospheric conditions of 20 planets as they eclipse their respective suns, an ...

Scientists using the James Webb telescope observed a distant exoplanet with an atmosphere of soot and diamonds, challenging ...