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 ...

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

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

"This finding is the first direct evidence of water’s interstellar journey from clouds to the materials that form planetary ...

PLATO powered up and extended its solar panels as the exoplanet-hunting spacecraft readies for launch as soon as December.

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered an alien world that defies every planetary rule with its massive size, low density, and tilted ...

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

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.

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