"L 98-59 c could be the first planet smaller than 2 Earth radii with a definitively detected atmosphere," a team of ...

The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets with twice the diameter of Earth.

What can exozodiacal dust, also called exozodi, teach astronomers about identifying Earth-like exoplanets? This is what a ...

K2-360 is a newly found planetary system with a super-dense planet, likely the core of a former larger world, shaped by ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

NASA has discovered a new world, named Gliese 12 b. It is roughly the size of Earth, lies in the habitable zone, and orbits every 12.8 days.

So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...

What if humanity's search for life on other planets returns no hits? A team of researchers led by Dr. Daniel Angerhausen, a ...

Scientists have taken a big step forward in the search for another Earth. A team from the University of Bern and the Swiss ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has just achieved a historic first by capturing direct images of carbon dioxide in the ...

What if we spend decades building advanced telescopes to search for life on other planets and come up empty-handed? A recent ...

Two planets outside the solar system have been identified orbiting a star located nearly 250 light-years away from Earth in ...