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

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

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

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

A new gas giant world discovered by citizen scientists using data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS is cool, ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Scientists have discovered the first clear case of a planet causing its host star to flare, offering new insights into the ...