Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far.

Exoplanets like HD 189733b, Tres-2b, and TOI-849b display extreme conditions from glass rain to near-total darkness, offering ...

Planet hunters have grown used to strange worlds, but a handful of discoveries now point to something even more radical: ...

"Asteroseismology with Roman is possible because we don't need to ask the telescope to do anything it wasn't already planning ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that ...

The James Webb Telescope is reshaping our understanding of distant worlds, revealing exoplanet atmospheres, potential ...

A nearby binary star system is bereft of giant planets, but scientists think it may still be a decent place to look for life. Binary star system Eta Cassiopeiae, located just 19 light-years away, ...

Searching for life on other planets requires more than just measuring their distances from their stars. A future NASA ...

What happens when a planet contains immense quantities of water but is far too hot for that water to remain liquid?

In the search for extraterrestrial life, the presence of water is a key signature of possible habitability. Identifying why ...

Researchers have pinpointed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby M-dwarf star only 18 light-years away.