The supposed "strange signals" were not mysterious at all, but commonly observed transit signals, according to NASA.

Discovered by volunteer scientists, this alien planet is out of synch with its siblings ...

It may be made from a former star ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

Scientists are unraveling the mysteries of "steam worlds"—exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes that are rich in water but orbit so close to their stars that their surfaces are shrouded in thick ...

Combining two kinds of quantum computing devices could be just the trick for taking better images of faint, faraway exoplanets ...

Despite its unmemorable name, J2322-2650 is a strange system. A Jupiter-sized exoplanet orbits an energetic neutron star, which constantly bombards it with gamma rays. Now, a team of astronomers has ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

This artist’s concept shows what the exoplanet called PSR J2322-2650b (left) may look like as it orbits a rapidly spinning neutron star called a pulsar (right). Gravitational forces from the much ...

Science fiction writer and futurist Arthur C. Clarke once said, “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” And perhaps that fear is what ...