In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

Planets orbiting two stars at once, a world that sparked debate over the possibility of life, and another being vaporized by ...

This year NASA unveiled new discoveries beyond our solar system, the count has surpassed 6,000, with several thousands more ...

An ancient rocky world so close to its star that its surface is largely molten should have been stripped bare of gas long ago ...

SANTA CRUZ — Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed ...

With sapphire waterfalls, lava rain and orbits around dead stars, these distant worlds push the limits of what’s possible.

Exoplanets come up a lot these days, usually in headlines about distant stars, strange atmospheres, or the possibility of ...

Surprised astronomers just discovered a world that blurs the line between planet and stellar remnant, hiding in a system ...

A strange world just 47 light-years from Earth is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about alien planets. Hidden ...

A Carnegie-led team of astronomers detected the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky planet beyond our ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

On this list, you'll find some weird incidents on Earth, a bit of Russian space drama and, of course, that little ...