Have you ever wondered what it would be like to build a brand new world on an exoplanet? Students have the opportunity to do ...

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

WD 1856+534b—a freezing world with a surface temperature of -125 degrees Fahrenheit—exists where planets are normally scoured ...

The president’s proposed budget includes major cuts to NASA — among them, the elimination of funding for the Nancy Grace ...

Most astronomers agree that life is likely common throughout the universe. While Earth is the only world known to have life, ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made an unprecedented discovery that promises to reshape our ...

Astronomers have been trying to discover evidence that worlds exist around stars other than our Sun since the 19th century.

"If the ultimate result of this story is that the public is more circumspect about future claims of life detection, that's ...

By Dave Prosper Astronomers have been trying to discover evidence that worlds exist around stars other than our Sun since the ...

Super-Earths are exoplanets that are much larger than our home, but smaller than Neptune and Uranus. They are likely much more common than assumed so far. There should be at least one super-Earth ...

Using the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet), an international team of researchers has discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought, ...

Astronomers have made a breakthrough discovery suggesting that super-Earth exoplanets are not only widespread across the ...