Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...

A trip to planets outside our solar system could tell scientists a lot — even if no extraterrestrial life is found ...

Astronomers discover a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune 250 light years away from our solar system. These planets offer a glimpse into planetary types missing from our own solar system but common in the ...

Astronomers have recently unveiled an extraordinary discovery in the cosmos: a new exoplanet named Enaiposha, located 47 ...

As experts turn their gaze to the sky, the likelihood of new discoveries increases exponentially. In a new paper published in the journal Earth, a group of scientists may have come ...

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

An exoplanet—also called an extrasolar planet—is a planet outside a solar system that orbits another star. With direct imaging, astronomers can see an exoplanet’s light in a telescope and study its ...

"We can see, for the first time, rings of dust surrounding protoplanets made visible by the bright starlight reflecting off ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar ...

Astronomers have revealed an exoplanet called Enaiposha to be a one-of-a-kind "super Venus" whose carbon-dioxide-rich ...

"Our hope with this kind of research is to understand our own solar system, life ... indirectly detected carbon dioxide in another exoplanet, called WASP-39 b, by tracking how its atmosphere ...