"As the large and bright discs are the easiest to observe, our previous view of the birth site of planets was biased." ...

So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

Indian scientists discover TOI-6038A b, a giant exoplanet 78 times Earth's mass. This sub-Saturn world orbits a binary star, ...

The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets with twice the diameter of Earth.

Here's where the James Webb Space Telescope comes in. Its advanced technology, including its large mirror and suite of ...

Astronomers discover a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune 250 light years away from our solar system. These planets offer a ...

Astronomers have identified an ultra-light exoplanet orbiting the star TOI-1453, located 250 light-years from Earth. While ...

More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...

These rather small planets are a stone's throw from Earth in galactic terms, but were too small for previous instruments to ...

From this route, the resulting exoplanet would be expected to share roughly the same composition as its parent star. ‘The ...