They also discovered a brown dwarf orbiting hundreds of light years away from Earth.

For the first time, scientists have continuously monitored a planet's escaping atmosphere over a complete orbit, revealing ...

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 ...

After cataloging thousands of worlds beyond our solar system, astronomers are now closing in on a far rarer prize: a moon ...

Check out the first findings from the Subaru Telescope.

An international team including astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Center of Competence in ...

Our Sun is about halfway through its life, which means Earth is as well. After a star exhausts its hydrogen nuclear fuel, its ...

Astronomers have so far confirmed over 5,900 exoplanet discoveries. - NASA / JPL-Caltech / R. Hurt / K. Miller illustration Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — ...

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 ...

Just decades after the first exoplanets were identified, our database of the distant worlds—monitored by the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute—has breached a new threshold. Now, astronomers have ...

Imagine you’re a farmer searching for eggs in the chicken coop—but instead of a chicken egg, you find an ostrich egg, much larger than anything a chicken could lay. That’s a little like how our team ...