At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

For many years, astronomers have been looking for extraterrestrial life. In doing so, astronomers have narrowed their search ...

Science is driven by our desire to understand things. In some cases, where it requires significant effort and investment to develop systems that can understand new things, science benefits from a game ...

Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system. In 1995, a gas giant named 51 Pegasi b, which orbits a star similar to Earth's sun, etched its name in history as the first exoplanet ever ...

Scientists say they may have discovered an exoplanet capable of supporting life. The planet, a super-Earth named HD 20794 d, is located just 20 light-years away. It has a mass six times that of our ...

The distant world WASP-121b is already bizarre. It's football-shaped and rains gems. Now, astronomers leveraged the power of four telescopes to observe what's transpiring deep inside this giant ...

Chemical fingerprints of life have been found on a distant exoplanet by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). It is the "most promising" evidence yet for alien life, scientists say. These ...

WASP-121b may have been born in a frozen zone and later migrated into its current inferno-like orbit. A surprise discovery of methane in the wrong place suggests intense vertical winds are reshaping ...

"Even the strongest hurricanes in the solar system seem calm in comparison." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. WASP-121 b is the ...

That would make it thousands of times more massive than any moon orbiting a solar system plane  — so massive it could make ...

Luke found life on Tatooine to be boring, but he should be glad, because as we have seen, binary stars have the potential to play all kinds of havoc on their orbiting circumbinary planets. When you ...