Astriking discovery by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unveiled the bizarre and fascinating nature of the exoplanet ...

The search for life beyond Earth is a holy grail quest for many experts, but finding where to look is a core issue.

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

Most exoplanets orbit other stars like Earth does with our sun, but free-floating exoplanets (or rogue planets) orbit the galactic center and are untethered to any star.

First Discoveries: One of the reasons why extrasolar planets are so difficult to detect is because they are even fainter than the stars they orbit.

Some exoplanets in their stars' habitable zones may be distinctly uninhabitable due to solar flaring. Red dwarfs are known for powerful flaring, and since they're dim and their habitable zones are ...

An extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, is a planet beyond the Solar System. As of 11 November 2006, 209 extrasolar planets have been discovered.

Other extrasolar planets have been detected by professional and amateur astronomers using something called the transit method. When a planet crosses the face of its star as seen from Earth, the star's ...

Astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets, some in the so-called habitable zone, Does that mean these planets could ...

Astronomers announce the discovery of 32 extrasolar planets, some just five times the mass of Earth and others five times heftier than giant Jupiter.

This was one of the most challenging questions in astronomy. The stars are so far away that the faint reflected light of their planets is too dim to see, even with the largest telescopes on Earth ...