Exoplanets—planets that orbit stars beyond our solar system—have transformed our understanding of the universe. Since the ...

Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies these rocky, or "terrestrial," worlds are far more common than was suspected ...

Roman was similarly designed with a focused set of science goals, including exploring an uncharted region of exoplanet ...

Now, new data show that this is a world like ... planet in the system, Kepler-10 d, orbiting further out, going around the star every 151 days. The minimum mass of this world is around 12 times ...

We tend to think of habitability in terms of individual planets and their potential to host life. But barring outliers like ...

Now, new data show that this is a world like nothing seen ... there is a third planet in the system, Kepler-10 d, orbiting further out, going around the star every 151 days. The minimum mass of this ...

A planet circling at a sharp 90-degree angle to the orbits of its two host stars has now been confirmed. This discovery ...

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they ...

"I had been waiting my entire career for Webb so that we could meaningfully characterize the atmospheres of these smaller ...

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

New views of TOI-421 b by JWST gives insight into how the most common type of planet in the galaxy might form.