On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

NASA confirms the existence of TOI‑1846 b, a nearby hot super-Earth that could contain water, initially observed by NASA's TESS telescope.

Watch how JW Telescope detects temperature on Trappist 1 b. Credit: Space.com | animation courtesy: ESO/L. Calçada / Space ...

TOI-6894 b, the largest exoplanet relative to its host star yet seen, doesn’t fit the most widely accepted formation model ...

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

There's nothing to get a scientist's heart pumping like a good, old-fashioned statistical debate. When it comes to topics ...

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

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

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

A giant gas planet comparable in size to Saturn exists around a small red dwarf star. The discovery is beyond the scope of ...

Scientists are tracking a large gas planet experiencing quite a quandary as it orbits extremely close to a young star - a ...

The clingy planet orbits so close to its star, it triggers powerful explosions of radiation that eat away at its atmosphere.