"In our solar system, the most massive moon is Ganymede, which is still extremely small compared to what we are inferring ...

The supposed "strange signals" were not mysterious at all, but commonly observed transit signals, according to NASA.

Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four ...

Since the Kepler Space Telescope began its prowl for exoplanets in 2009, it has uncovered a strange pattern among these alien ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

What can carbon dioxide in an exoplanet’s atmosphere teach us about its formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as an international ...

When an exoplanet is discovered, scientists are quick to describe it and explain its properties. Now, we know of thousands of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

It may be made from a former star ...

Discovered by volunteer scientists, this alien planet is out of synch with its siblings ...

Deep beneath the surface of distant exoplanets known as super-Earths, oceans of molten rock may be doing something ...

Just decades after the first exoplanets were identified, our database of the distant worlds—monitored by the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute—has breached a new threshold. Now, astronomers have ...