The discovery of the exoplanet, a super-Earth called Kepler-735c, is all down to something called transit timing variations, ...

Giant planets are not rare per se — after all, we have four in our own solar system. Such large worlds are, however, rarely ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have found an exoplanet that could be far better suited for life than Earth. This astonishing exoplanet is not just a distant world; it holds the potential to ...

TOI-6894 is one such star. Announced Wednesday in a paper for Nature Astronomy, the red dwarf is just 20% the mass of our Sun ...

The challenge in the search for habitable worlds is clear. We need to be able to identify habitable worlds and distinguish ...

TOI-6894 is roughly 240 light-years from Earth in the constellation Leo and is the smallest-known star to host a large planet ...

Observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have provided new clues about how the exoplanet WASP-121b has formed ...

A pair of new studies has revealed that the hellish skies of exoplanet WASP-121b contain silicon monoxide gas, which has ...

A giant conundrum has been found orbiting a teeny tiny red dwarf star just a fifth of the size of the Sun. Such small stars ...

A series of studies have cast doubt on the sensational claim that "the strongest evidence yet" was found that life exists ...

Astronomers have spotted a cosmic mismatch that has left them perplexed - a really big planet orbiting a really small star.

Astronomers have been left puzzled by the discovery of an unusually large planet orbiting a remarkably small star, a cosmic ...