Only 11.4 light-years away, two exoplanets have been detected around a neighboring star. One of them, Gl725Bc, is located in ...

Using HARPS and HARPS-N spectrographs, astronomers have observed a nearby K-type star designated HD 176986, known to host two ...

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

Astronomers have identified a newly discovered exoplanet that may orbit within the outer edge of its star's habitable zone, raising fresh questions about how common potentially life-supporting worlds ...

What if humanity could no longer live on Earth? Perhaps a catastrophic event forced us to find a new home among the stars.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) provides new insights into the formation of massive gas giant exoplanets, challenging previous size limits.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was more than 30 years ago when the first ever exoplanet was discovered. Since then, astronomers have discovered more than ...

NASA’s Kepler data reveals HD 137010 b, a cold, Earth-sized candidate. Though freezing cold, it offers valuable insights into planetary formation and life’s potential elsewhere.

The planet is one of the best worlds for follow-up studies to determine whether it could be habitable or not.

Surprised astronomers said Thursday they have discovered a star with planets in a bizarre order that defies scientific expectations – and suggests these faraway worlds formed in a manner never seen ...

CNN — Ten years after the Kepler Space Telescope launched and revolutionized exoplanet discovery, Kepler-1658 b has finally been confirmed as the first exoplanet that the mission ever detected. It's ...

Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like star. The Nobel-winning discovery, later published in the pages of Nature, ...