A small NASA exoplanet probe now has a ride to Earth orbit. The agency announced on Monday afternoon (Feb. 10) that it has ...

A rocky planet less than half the mass of Earth seems to have an atmosphere made almost entirely of sulphur dioxide – this ...

An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star.

Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...

New research points toward an exoplanet that may be capable of supporting life 20 light-years away from Earth.

An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 have been found ...

A research team may have discovered a star with an exoplanet that is so fast that both will leave the Milky Way.

Thousands of exoplanets have been discovered, only a select few show promise. Here we look at some of the most habitable exoplanets ever discovered ranked through their similarity to Earth. The result ...

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

"The climate of this planet is extreme and nothing like that of Earth. The planet's dayside is so hot that elements typically ...