"The climate of this planet is extreme and nothing like that of Earth. The planet's dayside is so hot that elements typically ...

The 'hot Neptune' planet, named LTT 9779b, is so scorching that its atmosphere should have evaporated, according to ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

If an extraterrestrial civilization existed with technology comparable to ours, would they be able to detect Earth?

Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...

New research points toward an exoplanet that may be capable of supporting life 20 light-years away from Earth.

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 have been found ...

The exoplanet HD 20794 d takes 647 days to orbit its star, around 40 days less than Mars. Instead of following a relatively circular orbit, like the Earth or Mars, HD 20794 d follows an elliptical ...

Using 20 years of data from the Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have discovered that turbulent stars could be corrupting ...

For stars such as the sun or HD 20794, it can extend from 0.7 to 1.5 astronomical units (AU), encompassing not only the orbit ...