On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme. At least, that's what astronomers found when ...

TOI-6894 b, the largest exoplanet relative to its host star yet seen, doesn’t fit the most widely accepted formation model ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...

Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...

A unique gas giant has been confirmed through global teamwork, offering insights into planetary formation and future ...

An exoplanet is any planet beyond our solar system. Most of them orbit other stars, but some free-floating exoplanets, called ...

Astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets, some in the so-called habitable zone, but does that mean they could host ...

Remarkably, in all cases the subject’s hearing improved, with effects taking hold within a month and an average improvement ...

Earth" that is located about 154 light-years away and is nearly twice as big and four times as massive as our planet.

Orbiting its star in an elliptical path at less than half the distance between Earth and the Sun, this exoplanet offers a ...