Thousands of exoplanets have been discovered since the 1990s, including "hot Jupiters," "super-Earths" and other types of alien worlds. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

They flagged potential oceans and air sources on the exoplanet dubbed LHS 1140 b, situated within the constellation Cetus in our night sky. Although the name isn’t so moving, its potential is.

But ever since the first exoplanet was discovered, it’s been increasingly clear that our Sun isn’t the only one in the universe with a handful of planets orbiting it. Over the last three ...

Researchers have developed a new coronagraph that could make it possible to see distant exoplanets obscured by light from their parent stars. Researchers have developed a new coronagraph -- an ...

Two new exoplanets have been discovered orbiting a star belonging to a binary pair located about 250 light-years from Earth in the Draco constellation. | Credit: Martin Farnir Astronomers have ...

There’s nothing terribly special about the exoplanet known as HIP 65426 b. It’s a gas giant nine times the mass of Jupiter, orbiting its host star 385 light years from Earth. Just one of at ...