A fifth planet has been detected within the habitable zone of a neighboring star, where conditions could perhaps support ...

New observations fail to confirm signs of life in the atmosphere of the distant planet K2-18b. They also raise questions ...

"It's almost unfathomable to imagine what is happening to this planet. The planet's atmosphere simply cannot withstand the ...

Learn how researchers may have discovered an exomoon about 635 light-years away orbiting gas giant exoplanet WASP-4b. Credits ...

Using the European Space Agency’s Characterizing Exoplanets Satellite (CHEOPS) telescope, a team of astronomers ...

Astronomers observe a dramatic event on exoplanet TOI 1227 b. This young gas planet is losing its atmosphere quickly. Intense ...

Detailed photos from the newly operational Vera C. Rubin Observatory have revealed that the recently discovered interstellar ...

The star L 98-59 is only 35 light years away, and several interesting exoplanets have already been found there. Now a ...

Magnetic fields play an important—if sometimes underappreciated—part in planetary systems. Without a strong magnetic field, ...

The punishing radiation appears to be causing the planet to shed its atmosphere at a rate of at least 1 trillion grams per second, according to a new study involving NASA 's Chandra X-ray Observatory.

A NEW Earth-sized planet has been discovered in a faraway constellation – and it would kill any astronaut who dare travel ...