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 ...

Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...

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

Talk about a hot mess. Scientists have uncovered a hellish “lava world” where temperatures soar to a blistering 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit — hot enough to melt rock into a churning ocean of magma and ...

Astronomers may have just uncovered over 10,000 new exoplanet candidates in a single sweep, potentially tripling our known tally of alien worlds. Using a machine learning algorithm to sift through ...