Using NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), astronomers have discovered three ...

What if humanity could no longer live on Earth? Perhaps a catastrophic event forced us to find a new home among the stars.

Stronger links between researchers who work on Earth’s and other planets’ atmospheres, and between the experimental, ...

Sci-fi movies and TV shows love to place a planet inside a binary system. In reality, a planet shouldn’t be able go around ...

If alien life exists on the newly discovered JG 251 c, we could know about it in the next 10 years.

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit ...

Researchers are studying eccentric warm Jupiters, giant exoplanets that follow odd, elongated orbits unlike anything in our solar system.

An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar ...

Dr. Eric Ford, director of Penn State’s Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds, explains the search for planets beyond our solar system, focusing on those in the “habitable zone” where liquid ...

With water being so important to life on Earth, scientists often look for it on exoplanets. But some of those worlds might ...