Roman was similarly designed with a focused set of science goals, including exploring an uncharted region of exoplanet ...

We tend to think of habitability in terms of individual planets and their potential to host life. But barring outliers like ...

A planet circling at a sharp 90-degree angle to the orbits of its two host stars has now been confirmed. This discovery ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has found water vapor swirling in the air of a distant, boiling-hot alien planet, a new ...

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they ...

The team believes there is a third planet in the system, Kepler-10 d, orbiting further out, going around the star every 151 days. The minimum mass of this world is around 12 times Earth ...

Though they don't orbit around our sun, sub-Neptunes are the most common type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar ...

The James Webb Space Telescope spotted possible signatures for life in an exoplanet's atmosphere. Still, researchers caution it’s far too early to call the findings definitive ...

Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies these rocky, or "terrestrial," worlds are far more common than was suspected ...

New views of TOI-421 b by JWST gives insight into how the most common type of planet in the galaxy might form.

We were doing the typical planet vetting, and I happened to spot this signal that appeared very unusual.” An orbiting ...