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 ...

Researchers at Cornell University have developed the first-ever reflectance spectra — essentially a color-coded key — of the ...

Scientists have detected the first direct evidence of a coronal mass ejection from a star beyond our Sun, specifically the M dwarf StKM1-1262. This ma ...

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?

A superconducting kinetic inductance detector improves sensitivity limits needed for observing cold astrophysical objects, ...

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