Using NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), astronomers have discovered three ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers have detected a new exoplanet ...

As more and more exoplanets are discovered throughout the galaxy, scientists find some that defy explanation—at least for ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

According to the researchers, because it is rocky and located in the star's habitable zone, it may be habitable.

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and ...

One hundred twenty light-years from us, there is an exoplanet that can potentially host life. It’s called K2-18b, and it’s ...

In our solar system, Earth is one of but eight planets – nine, if you really want to count Pluto – and the only one remotely hospitable to life. And as technology advances, astronomers only expect to ...

A new exoplanet candidate has just burst onto the scene, and it may be one of the best alien worlds yet on which to search ...

About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 ...