Astronomers have discovered an additional 100 new worlds in data collected by NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS, ...

Alien planets are far away but extreme lasers on Earth are giving scientists a way to investigate what they're like.

A new catalog of potentially habitable exoplanets provides the framework for future observations in the search for alien life ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising way to study the harsh space weather around young M dwarf stars. Mysterious dips in ...

Worlds upon worlds await us in the cosmos and we’re finding more all the time. Before 1992, we weren’t even completely certain planets existed outside of our solar system. Now, astronomers are finding ...

We might have had it wrong this whole time.

Astronomers have discovered a unique planet in the Milky Way's Volans constellation, featuring a molten surface and sulfur-rich atmosphere. This hellish world, over 60% larger than Earth but less ...