Kepler's Supernova, seen in 1604, is one of the most famous exploding stars ever seen, and now astronomers think it may have ...

Neptune, TOI-270 d provides a critical opportunity to understand atmospheric composition and planetary evolution in a ...

Researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of planet K2-18b, located about ...

The idea that our Solar System is representative of other solar systems hasn't survived the age of exoplanet discovery.

BOSTON, MA – A new international study has revealed that super-Earths—planets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune—may be far more common in the universe than scientists previously ...

Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island have listened to the music of a nearby star, uncovering ...

An exoplanet located 73 light-years away is defying astronomers' expectations. TOI-270 d, far from being an ocean world, appears to be a scorching super-Earth enveloped in a dense atmosphere.

By sifting through that vast dataset, the team found 2,889 likely superflares on 2,527 sunlike stars. That works out to ...

Space is full of surprises but few are as unique as the so-called "cotton candy planets." These young, giant exoplanets have an incredibly low density and are quite light and airy in weight that is ...

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, ...