Astronomers are uncovering new insights into exoplanetary atmospheres, and a recent study on WASP-107 b has turned conventional models on their heads. This distant planet, with its incredibly low ...

Some exoplanets have characteristics totally alien to our Solar System. Hot Jupiters are one such type. They can have orbital ...

In a thrilling development, scientists have confirmed the discovery of a new "super-Earth" exoplanet that may have the ...

Astronomers have uncovered the secrets of an alien atmosphere on an exoplanet far beyond our Solar System, and it’s unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. In a scientific first, an ...

Artist’s rendition of a variety of exoplanets featured in the new NASA TESS-Keck Survey Mass Catalog, the largest homogenous analysis of TESS planets released by any survey thus far.

When the first exoplanet was discovered in 1995 ... Yet both jumped at the chance to explore these strange new worlds. “I’ve always loved adventure,” says Seager, now at the Massachusetts ...

Cosmic forensic experts are reconstructing the magnetic field around an infant star from the planet-forming disk of gas and ...

Astronomers may have inadvertently complicated the mystery of how strange "roasting marshmallow ... the catalog of extrasolar planets, or "exoplanets," has grown to over 5,000 entries.

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the solar system—but it’s still no place like home ...