Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's super Neptune! But this Superman-mimicking planet is not blasting through space on its own. It is being dragged along by its parent star.

Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

NASA's Pandora mission nears launch, aiming to analyze exoplanet atmospheres for habitability clues. Using infrared ...

An international team of scientists has confirmed the discovery of exoplanet HD 20794 d, which potentially could support life ...

How would detecting methane help astronomers identify if exoplanets, or even exomoons, have life as we know it, or even as we ...

A new study led by University College London (UCL) researchers suggests that unpredictable stars could be distorting our ...