An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of two new exoplanets, a few times more massive than Earth, ...

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Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets that have been confirmed so far and many more thousands of candidates, most orbit stars the ...

Astronomers have spotted four smaller-than-Earth exoplanets orbiting the closest single-star system to us, called Barnard's Star. According to the astronomers, these exoplanets — which are among ...

Proxima Centauri, a star four light-years from the sun, shoots out a violent solar flare in this artist's depiction.

This exoplanet and its host star are also the “closest” to Earth, offering an excellent excuse to put NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to work investigating the composition of the planet ...

(Web Desk) - A ‘super-Earth’ exoplanet has been found outside of our solar system and it could have the right conditions to ...

Here's everything to know about the discovery, the intriguing exoplanet itself and the ongoing search for life in the cosmos. A strong possibility exists that extraterrestrial life can be found on ...

In an astonishing announcement, astronomers claim to have detected the most promising “hints” of potential life on a planet beyond our solar system, though other scientists expressed scepticism.

This illustration shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs –– objects bigger than gas-giant planets but too small to be proper stars. ESO/M. Kornmesser Astronomers have discovered a ...

When Star Wars debuted in 1977, astronomers had yet to confirm an exoplanet with the same orbital path as Skywalker’s home world. It would take another 16 years before experts located an actual ...