There are thousands of known exoplanets, many of which are too dark to directly see, but scientists have made a 3D map by ...

"Even the strongest hurricanes in the solar system seem calm in comparison." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. WASP-121 b is the ...

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

The satellite, aboard a SpaceX rocket that could lift off as early as this Sunday, is set to help reveal details about ...

JWST observations of the ultra-hot super-Earth exoplanet TOI-561 b provide the strongest evidence to date for an atmosphere ...

Discovered by volunteer scientists, this alien planet is out of synch with its siblings ...

Tylos (or WASP-121b) is a gaseous, giant exoplanet located some 900 light-years away in the constellation Puppis. Using the ESPRESSO instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), scientists have ...

NASA has confirmed 6,000 exoplanets, marking a major milestone in humanity’s quest to understand other worlds. From gas giants hugging their stars to planets covered in lava or clouds of gemstones, ...

The 247th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS 247) is being held Jan. 4 to Jan. 8 and will feature remarkable ...

The planets have been nicknamed Earth's seven sisters. — -- An international team of astronomers has discovered seven potentially habitable exoplanets — or planets outside our solar system — that ...

A new study has identified an exoplanet that is just 3 million years old — around 1,500 times younger than Earth — alongside a misaligned protoplanetary disk that researchers cannot explain. When you ...

WASP-121 b is the definition of an "extreme" exoplanet — it's so hot that it rains droplets of liquid iron. Now, astronomers have discovered that this planet, located around 900 light-years away from ...