There's nothing to get a scientist's heart pumping like a good, old-fashioned statistical debate. When it comes to topics ...

TOI-6894 b, the largest exoplanet relative to its host star yet seen, doesn’t fit the most widely accepted formation model ...

The search for life beyond our planet continues, and one of the most underappreciated tools in an astrobiologist's toolkit is ...

Astronomers have added two more exoplanets to a growing study aimed at finding out whether rocky worlds near small, faint ...

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...

Lichen from the Mojave Desert has stunned scientists by surviving months of lethal UVC radiation, suggesting life could exist ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a previously unknown exoplanet, a young gas giant the size of Saturn, 110 light ...

A newly discovered exoplanet orbits a star smaller than our Sun, located roughly 110 light-years from Earth in the ...

The discovery of the exoplanet, a super-Earth called Kepler-735c, is all down to something called transit timing variations, ...

After three years of helping astronomers investigate known planets beyond the solar system, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered its first new planet.

Astrophysicists have gained precious new insights into how distant “exoplanets” form and what their atmospheres can look like ...

In June 2019, Harvard astrophysicists discovered a rocky exoplanet 22 light years from Earth. Analyzing data from the Transiting Exoplanets Survey Satellite (TESS), they and other scientists around ...