Astronomers have been trying to discover evidence that worlds exist around stars other than our Sun since the 19th century.

Astronomers recently used a combination of space telescope observations and computer models to learn more about the ...

Dr Ian Whittaker from Nottingham Trent University explains the science behind new study which claims to have spotted ...

A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...

How common are super-Earth exoplanets throughout the universe? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address as an international team o | Space ...

Recently, a new discovery has been made in the astronomy world in the form of a new exoplanet, Wolf 327b, which orbits the ...

The transit method is where you look at how the brightness of the star decreases as the planet passes in front of it. It will ...

Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy. These "free-floating" worlds don't orbit stars, but instead roam the ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...

The transit method is where you look at how the brightness ... Looking at the atmosphere of an exoplanet is even more difficult. Scientists use spectroscopy to do this. The light coming out ...