NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been used to discover Earth-size planet TOI 700 e. It is "orbiting ...

With temperatures reaching almost 2,000 degrees Celsius on its dayside, LTT 9779 is one of the few known planets in the "hot ...

Astronomers have identified thousands of exoplanets, but only a handful look like Earth. These 16 worlds may be the closest ...

The results show a circular “hotspot” on the side of the planet that always faces its star, surrounded by a cooler ring at ...

Astronomers are just beginning to scratch the surface of the complex, and sometimes violent, relationships between planets ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Image: NASA/Jolearra Tshiteya) The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope developed by ...

Can planets orbiting M dwarf stars become habitable, or does the star’s activity prevent it? This is what a recent study ...

India and Japan are jointly building the world's largest and most powerful optical telescope. Its 30-meter wide mirror has ...

Eta Cassiopeiae, a nearby double star system, may host stable Earth-sized planets. Its lack of giant exoplanets makes it ...

What happens when a planet contains immense quantities of water but is far too hot for that water to remain liquid?

Deep beneath your feet, far beyond where any drill can reach, something strange is hiding. Two continent-sized blobs of rock sit just above Earth’s core, hot, dense and stubbornly different from ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that ...