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 ...

This artist’s concept shows the volatile red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 and its four most closely orbiting planets, all of which ...

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

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 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 ...

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

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

A team of researchers has confirmed stars ring loud and clear in a "key" that will harmonize well with the science goals and ...