Astronomers have discovered what seems to be a star racing through the Milky Way at 1.2 million mph, dragging a Neptune-sized ...

An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star.

How would detecting methane help astronomers identify if exoplanets, or even exomoons, have life as we know it, or even as we ...

It was, of course, a great joy for me when we could confirm the planet’s existence,” said Dr. Cretignier. “It was also a ...

"The climate of this planet is extreme and nothing like that of Earth. The planet's dayside is so hot that elements typically ...

If an extraterrestrial civilization existed with technology comparable to ours, would they be able to detect Earth?

The agency announced on Monday afternoon (Feb. 10) that it has picked SpaceX to launch Pandora, a 716-pound (325-kilogram) ...

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

The scientists of the @PRLAhmedabad, have discovered a new #Exoplanet, TOI-6038A b, a dense sub-Saturn size with a mass of 78 ...

Using 20 years of data from the Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have discovered that turbulent stars could be corrupting ...