A new exoplanet candidate has just burst onto the scene, and it may be one of the best alien worlds yet on which to search ...

Webb just spotted a carbon-rich moon factory 625 light-years away, revealing how moons like ours may have first taken shape.

The planet, known as GJ 251c, orbits a red dwarf star 18.2 light-years away in the constellation of Gemini, the Twins. The ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and ...

Earth" less than 20 light-years from our own planet is offering scientists new hope in the hunt for other worlds that could ...

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

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

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

"It was just a matter of time before we found them." ...

Using the European Southern Observatory 's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have caught it pulling in gas and ...

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

No planets cooler than about 35.33 degrees Fahrenheit had ever been detected. An exoplanet discovered in 2020 contains the coldest temperatures ever measured on a planetary body, according to ...