"The detection of heavy water … proves the water's ancient heritage and provides a missing link between clouds, disks, comets ...

An exoplanet has been discovered orbiting Barnard's star by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Barnard ...

NASA launched an exoplanet-hunting experiment Oct. 1 despite the government shutdown. After the mission's end on Oct. 2, news ...

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

Space scientists look back on three decades of exoplanet discoveries—from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...

Hot, small and old—exoplanet TOI-561 b is just about the worst place to look for alien air. Scientists using JWST found it there anyway ...

The first picture of a planet outside our solar system may actually depict a swirl of space dust, a new study suggests.

How can timing influence planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical ...

A new study led by UNLV scientists sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy—and why the life and ...

An instrument is set to improve the detection and direct imaging of planets outside our solar system by harnessing the power ...

Scientists got a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons could potentially form.

Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like ...