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

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

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 ...

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

Researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of planet K2-18b, located about ...

a class of hypothetical planets covered in a deep ocean with an atmosphere rich in water vapor (such as the controversial K2-18b). Kepler-10 c might be even more particular. It is not just a water ...

The idea that our Solar System is representative of other solar systems hasn't survived the age of exoplanet discovery.

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

Bungie has unveiled the Year of Prophecy that begins with the release of The Edge of Fate on 15th July. The year will be ...

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 ...

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

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