Scientists have discovered unexpected water-ice clouds on a distant, Jupiter-like exoplanet, challenging current atmospheric ...

Starlight has been the key to finding thousands of exoplanets over the past decade, but researchers have found a new way to ...

Alien solar systems that are home to so-called "hot Jupiters" — gas giants circling sizzlingly close to their stars — are unlikely homes for Earth-like planets, researchers say. Hot Jupiters get their ...

This not-so-little piece of equipment could change astronomy forever. And it could be about to find alien life. Maybe in a ...

Nearly two dozen ‘Earth-like’ planets that could be crawling with alien life have been identified by scientists. Exoplanets are what scientists call worlds that orbit other stars (though some are ...