Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far.

A team of researchers has demonstrated a new way in which sub-Neptune-sized exoplanets could produce a great deal of water.

Searching for life on other planets requires more than just measuring their distances from their stars. A future NASA ...

Where will we first find life beyond Earth? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to ...

The James Webb Telescope is reshaping our understanding of distant worlds, revealing exoplanet atmospheres, potential ...

TESS launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 in 2018 to study exoplanets that transit their star from our perspective, meaning they ...

What happens to planets as their stars age and come closer to death? This is what a recent study published in the Monthly ...

A University of Iowa researcher has been awarded funding from NASA to create an interstellar map that could lead to more accurate observations of planets located outside our solar system — known as ...

Researchers at Cornell University have developed the first-ever reflectance spectra — essentially a color-coded key — of the ...

Scientists have detected the first direct evidence of a coronal mass ejection from a star beyond our Sun, specifically the M dwarf StKM1-1262. This ma ...

A global team of astronomers led by a Turkish scientist has discovered four new exoplanets, one of which lies within the ...