Scientists spotted the heavy water (which we'll get into in just a moment) in the planet-forming disk of gas and dust around ...

An exoplanet has been discovered orbiting Barnard's star by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Barnard ...

If you think you've met the wildest exoplanet yet, you haven't learned about TOI-4507 b. This strange world breaks almost ...

NASA launched an exoplanet-hunting experiment Oct. 1 despite the government shutdown. After the mission's end on Oct. 2, news ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

Space scientists look back on three decades of exoplanet discoveries—from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...

Hot, small and old—exoplanet TOI-561 b is just about the worst place to look for alien air. Scientists using JWST found it there anyway ...

How can timing influence planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical ...

A new study led by UNLV scientists sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy—and why the life and ...

An instrument is set to improve the detection and direct imaging of planets outside our solar system by harnessing the power ...

No planets cooler than about 35.33 degrees Fahrenheit had ever been detected. An exoplanet discovered in 2020 contains the coldest temperatures ever measured on a planetary body, according to ...