Alien planets are far away but extreme lasers on Earth are giving scientists a way to investigate what they're like.

Scientists have uncovered a surprising way to study the harsh space weather around young M dwarf stars. Mysterious dips in ...

A new generation instrument designed to probe the atmospheres of distant worlds is nearing operational readiness, marking a ...

Astronomers have discovered an additional 100 new worlds in data collected by NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS, ...

The molten planet, with an atmosphere rich in sulfur-bearing gases, is unlike anything astronomers have ever smelled.

By applying machine learning to vast TESS datasets, researchers have built one of the most precise catalogs of nearby exoplanets to date.

Life on Earth is a precious thing, especially given what astronomers know about the visible universe. Although researchers ...

Scientists have discovered natural space weather stations that exist around distant stars because these stations can ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new world just 35 light-years from Earth – one permanently covered in a vast ocean of molten rock. The exoplanet, known as L 98-59 d, defies existing models of ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) - Astronomers have spotted a planet orbiting a star in our neighborhood of the ...