Astronomers have discovered a brand-new class of exoplanet unlike anything previously known. This discovery, featured in ...

This not-so-little piece of equipment could change astronomy forever. And it could be about to find alien life. Maybe in a ...

Alien solar systems that are home to so-called "hot Jupiters" — gas giants circling sizzlingly close to their stars — are unlikely homes for Earth-like planets, researchers say. Hot Jupiters get their ...

New research suggests that many planets previously considered promising for life may, in fact, be far less hospitable. A ...

The race to compile a sort of catalogue of the planets orbiting distant Suns is intensifying, with the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, for instance, set to spot tens of thousands of such ...