New observations fail to confirm signs of life in the atmosphere of the distant planet K2-18b. They also raise questions ...

"It's almost unfathomable to imagine what is happening to this planet. The planet's atmosphere simply cannot withstand the ...

"This is an ultra-hot Jupiter, and orbits much closer to its star than any other hot Jupiter ever discovered." ...

Learn how researchers may have discovered an exomoon about 635 light-years away orbiting gas giant exoplanet WASP-4b. Credits ...

A super-Earth exoplanet has been detected within the habitable zone of a nearby red dwarf star, where liquid water might ...

Using the European Space Agency’s Characterizing Exoplanets Satellite (CHEOPS) telescope, a team of astronomers ...

Astronomers observe a dramatic event on exoplanet TOI 1227 b. This young gas planet is losing its atmosphere quickly. Intense ...

Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has detected a new exoplanet orbiting a nearby star. The newfound alien world, designated TOI-2431 b, is ...

The star L 98-59 is only 35 light years away, and several interesting exoplanets have already been found there. Now a ...

Magnetic fields play an important—if sometimes underappreciated—part in planetary systems. Without a strong magnetic field, ...

The punishing radiation appears to be causing the planet to shed its atmosphere at a rate of at least 1 trillion grams per second, according to a new study involving NASA 's Chandra X-ray Observatory.