Astronomers have spotted a distant planet shedding matter with each orbit around its host star, generating a comet-like tail ...

Astronomers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made an unusual discovery, finding a planet which is in the process of disintegrating. And as it decays, it is leaving behind a ...

A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...

Astronomers discovered a planet that orbits its star so closely that its surface is being scorched into magma and vaporizing ...

How common are super-Earth exoplanets throughout the universe? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found the “strongest evidence” yet of life beyond our solar system.

The exoplanet K2-18b is generating headlines because researchers announced what could be evidence of life on the planet. The ...

"The extent of the tail is gargantuan, stretching up to 9 million kilometers [5.6 million miles] long," said MIT astronomer ...

The planet is "crumbling to pieces," shedding the equivalent of Mount Everest’s mass every 30.5-hour orbit and will be ...

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

Most are discovered through indirect means, such as radial velocity or the transit method, where you look at how the ...