NASA has officially confirmed over 5,000 exoplanets. These worlds include icy, rocky, and gas planets with unique ...

Meet Tylos: a gas giant 900 light years away and with a climate never seen before on any planet known to scientists.

HD 20794 d, a planet six times the mass of Earth, orbits a Sun-like star just 20 light-years away. Its presence was confirmed ...

"From developing small robots that could swim through the oceans of other worlds to growing space habitats from fungi, this ...

Some exoplanets have characteristics totally alien to our Solar System. Hot Jupiters are one such type. They can have orbital ...

A new study published by an international team of researchers led by Taro Matsuo, an astrophysicist at Nagoya University in Japan, argues that this evolutionary trend made sense 3 billion years when ...

Astronomers have unlocked a new way to explore alien worlds by mapping the 3D structure of an exoplanet’s atmosphere for the ...

Astronomers have discovered that sulfur may be a key to helping us narrow down our search for life on other planets. It's not ...

Astronomers have mapped the 3D structure of an alien planet's atmosphere for the first time, revealing a layered system of extreme winds.

From star births to deaths and a party in a black hole, here are some of the reports we’ve been getting back from the ...

Explore the fascinating evolution of Mars atmosphere. Discover how it transformed, becoming trapped in its crust's clay ...

WASP-121b is classified as an ultra-hot Jupiter, a gas giant that orbits very close to its host star. A single year on this ...