It all started when a doctoral candidate at the University of Washington found a Sun-like star behaving strangely.

Astronomers have witnessed evidence of an extremely violent collision between planets, and it resembles the event in Earth's history that created the moon.

Finding Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars and identifying signs of life such as oxygen or water is a major goal in ...

This satellite will change everything. The field of exoplanets is about to undergo a revolution. The Gaia spacecraft is going to release new data never before seen that is going to find more ...

Astronomers have discovered a bizarre exoplanet with a giant underground ocean of magma that traps sulphur and may represent an entirely new class of worlds.

Sixty-six light-years away, an Earth-sized exoplanet completes an orbit in under six hours, skimming around its star at ...

A study led by the University of Oxford has identified a new type of planet beyond our solar system—one that stores large amounts of sulfur deep within a permanent ocean of magma. The findings have ...

Latest observations of L98-59d, about 35 light years from Earth, suggest it could be different to anything seen before ...

Artist's view of WASP-107b. The planet’s low density and the intense irradiation from its star allow helium to escape the planet and form an asymmetric extended and diffuse envelope around it.

Astronomers have generated the first three-dimensional map of a planet orbiting another star, revealing an atmosphere with distinct temperature zones—one so scorching that it breaks down water vapor, ...