An artist's depiction of 51 Pegasi b, the first exoplanet found orbiting a sunlike star. | Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Thirty ...

Using the European Southern Observatory 's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have caught it pulling in gas and ...

After marking the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the first exoplanet around a sun-like star, we now look forward to ...

Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like ...

Much like the murky waters of the deep ocean, the unpredictable fluidity of Earth’s atmosphere can distort any light that ...

An exoplanet has been discovered orbiting Barnard's star by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Barnard ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

How can timing influence planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical ...

From lava worlds to gas giants, NASA says the variety of these worlds is staggering—and that signs of a further 8,000 distant ...

Hot, small and old—exoplanet TOI-561 b is just about the worst place to look for alien air. Scientists using JWST found it there anyway ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope and other observatories suggests a supervolcanic exomoon may lurk around the giant ...

Is anybody out there? Probably. Most stars have planets; we've discovered more than 6,000 exoplanets thus far, and the most ...