A rocky exoplanet outside the Earth's solar system may have an atmosphere, according to new evidence gathered by NASA ...

Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave discuss an Earth-sized exoplanet, how ant colonies deal with disease and a possible link between volcanoes and the Black Death.

Astronomers have discovered a planet beyond the solar system that orbits its twin parent stars closer than any ever seen ...

The hunt is on for terrestrial exoplanets in habitable zones, and some of the most promising candidates were discovered ...

The most convincing evidence to date of a dense atmosphere around a rocky planet outside the solar system has been found in ...

However, astronomers in Hawaii just spotted a pair of exciting discoveries — a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf — using Japan ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have captured dramatic helium streams pouring off the super-puff exoplanet ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have for the first time detected tiny quartz crystals containing silica — a common mineral on Earth — within the atmosphere of a blazing hot exoplanet.

A new study of the intriguing TRAPPIST-1 exoplanetary system has demonstrated the complex interaction between the activity of the system's star and its planetary features. Astronomers led by a team at ...

An international team, including astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Centre of Competence in ...

In a discovery that's fit for a movie, Northwestern University astronomers have directly imaged a Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns. While obtaining an image of a planet beyond our solar ...

JWST has observed a massive helium cloud streaming from the super-puff exoplanet WASP-107b, marking the first direct ...