"Are we alone?" This ancient question has occupied humanity's mind for a long time. In 1995, the discovery of the first ...

Giant planets are not rare per se — after all, we have four in our own solar system. Such large worlds are, however, rarely ...

SCIENTISTS have stumbled across a new Super-Earth that orbits inside its star’s habitable zone with a new alien-hunting tool.

The challenge in the search for habitable worlds is clear. We need to be able to identify habitable worlds and distinguish ...

TOI-6894 is one such star. Announced Wednesday in a paper for Nature Astronomy, the red dwarf is just 20% the mass of our Sun ...

A series of studies have cast doubt on the sensational claim that "the strongest evidence yet" was found that life exists ...

A small red dwarf star is challenging our knowledge of how planets form by coexisting with a massive exoplanet, much like a ...

Astronomers have spotted a cosmic mismatch that has left them perplexed - a really big planet orbiting a really small star.

Astronomers have been left puzzled by the discovery of an unusually large planet orbiting a remarkably small star, a cosmic ...

NASA has just announced a groundbreaking discovery: 10 new Earth-like planets beyond our solar system that could potentially ...

Astronomers have detected silicon monoxide gas in the atmosphere of a planet 850 lightyears from Earth, the first time the ...

A pair of new studies has revealed that the hellish skies of exoplanet WASP-121b contain silicon monoxide gas, which has ...