The search for life beyond Earth is a holy grail quest for many experts, but finding where to look is a core issue.

"By studying these planets, we can better understand how planets form in general, a bit like peering into the past of our ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

An exoplanet 60 light-years away from Earth, known as 14 Herculis c, is thought to be the coldest one yet found, researchers ...

I am an astrophysicist and astrobiologist with over 20 years of experience studying extrasolar planets – which are planets beyond our solar system. My colleagues and I have developed a new ...

GEMS are a relatively rare population of extrasolar planets with radii about 8–15 times larger than Earth's and with masses of at least 80 times greater than that of our home planet. The ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has detected three new hot ...

Astronomers spotted water around a young, sun-like star for the first time ever, and it could help us understand solar system formation.