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.

In our solar system, Earth is one of but eight planets – nine, if you really want to count Pluto – and the only one remotely hospitable to life. And as technology advances, astronomers only expect to ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (NASA/CNN NEWSOURCE/WKRC) - Astronomers have announced a groundbreaking discovery that could change our understanding of the universe. A planet, similar in size to Earth, has been ...

The recent discovery of an exoplanet just 20 light-years away has sparked intrigue and debate among the scientific community. The planet exhibits a startling similarity to Earth, including the ...

Dark matter is one of the biggest puzzles in science. Although it makes up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe, it has never been directly observed. You can’t see it, touch it, or hold it ...

Astronomers have a new theory about planetary formation, and it revolves around one mysterious concept: interstellar visitors. No, not little green men, but rather deep-space wanderers like the ...

Scientists are unraveling the mysteries of "steam worlds"—exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes that are rich in water but orbit so close to their stars that their surfaces are shrouded in thick ...

Just decades after the first exoplanets were identified, our database of the distant worlds—monitored by the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute—has breached a new threshold. Now, astronomers have ...