NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered an extraordinary planet that's roughly the size of Earth but is only one-tenth of our planet's age, with half of its surface likely ...

Scientists using a NASA space telescope have discovered a tantalizing world. It's about the size of Earth, sits remarkably close to our solar system, and could be comfortable for life as we know it.

Astronomers have uncovered a potentially habitable Earth-sized exoplanet 300 light-years away from us. Out of the 2,681 exoplanets spotted by NASA's Kepler space telescope between 2009 and 2018, this ...

What planet is most like Earth? Reseachers have identified several exoplanets similar to our planet, but none that are an ...

Webb telescope discovered a bizarre exoplanet with carbon atmosphere, no hydrogen, orbiting a super-dense spinning star.

In a zesty new discovery, scientists have unearthed a strange lemon-shaped exoplanet. It is unlike one we have seen before, ...

Determining the size of an Earth-size exoplanet by the amount of starlight it blocks hundreds of light-years away once was the realm of science fiction. Measuring the mass of such a small planet based ...

"We detected another planet even closer to the star that interacts strongly with its big neighbor, causing their orbits to wobble in ways we've never seen before." When you purchase through links on ...

A recent study published in The Astronomical Journal uses data from the NASA K2 mission to examine the reasons behind why some exoplanets, specifically sub-Neptune exoplanets, are losing their ...

One of the main questions in exoplanet science concerns M dwarfs (red dwarfs) and the habitability of exoplanets that orbit ...

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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Scientists have discovered that a distant "hot Jupiter" world has a planetary companion. The two ...