When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a ...

Exoplanets like HD 189733b, Tres-2b, and TOI-849b display extreme conditions from glass rain to near-total darkness, offering insight into the diversity of planets beyond our solar system.

Using NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), astronomers have discovered three ...

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit ...

If you think you've met the wildest exoplanet yet, you haven't learned about TOI-4507 b. Second, TOI-4507 b is on a nearly polar orbit; it swings around its star almost perfectly perpendicular to the ...

Researchers are studying eccentric warm Jupiters, giant exoplanets that follow odd, elongated orbits unlike anything in our solar system.

A trio of newly discovered exoplanets is defying the expectation that binary systems are hostile to planet formation, according to an international team of researchers.

Experts have determined it to be a "super-puff," an exoplanet with a large but extended atmosphere. The most noteworthy ...

Worlds upon worlds await us in the cosmos and we’re finding more all the time. Before 1992, we weren’t even completely certain planets existed outside of our solar system. Now, astronomers are finding ...