Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets — worlds beyond our solar system. Most of them are in single-star systems, ...

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This is how long it would take a jet travelling at 600mph to get to K2-18b, a planet that may (or may not) have alien life.

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It is rare to find brown dwarf stars orbiting in pairs, and this pair has an even more unusual exoplanet companion ...

"A planet orbiting not just a binary, but a binary brown dwarf, as well as being on a polar orbit, is rather incredible and ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet that orbits at a 90-degree angle around a rare pair of strange stars—a real-life 'twist' ...

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

Using the radial velocity method, an international team of astronomers has discovered a new extrasolar planet orbiting a ...

When we look for extraterrestrials, we often peer into the depths of space. But alien life might be closer than you think ...

A new study modeled the chemistry of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet between Earth and Neptune in size, finding evidence that it could be a giant rocky planet shrouded in a thick, hot atmosphere.