Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

Finding life elsewhere in the cosmos is no easy task. We’ve been searching for decades and, so far, we haven’t heard from anyone and we haven’t found anywhere that looks quite like home. While ...

NASA has announced the discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star that shares several other similarities with ...

To date, over 5000 exoplanets have been discovered using telescopes on the ground and in space. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

What if humanity could no longer live on Earth? Perhaps a catastrophic event forced us to find a new home among the stars.

Left: Artistic conception of the longheld astronomical assumption of brown dwarfs resembling Jupiter in appearance, displaying prominent multiple zonal bands and stable vortices similar to the Great ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was more than 30 years ago when the first ever exoplanet was discovered. Since then, astronomers have discovered more than ...

The planet is one of the best worlds for follow-up studies to determine whether it could be habitable or not.

Are we alone in the universe? Are we alone in the universe? The search for exoplanets—planets orbiting stars beyond our solar system—is helping scientists get closer to an answer. From hot Jupiters to ...

Two researchers have found an explanation for why we find almost no exoplanets orbiting binary stars. According to them, ...