The supposed "strange signals" were not mysterious at all, but commonly observed transit signals, according to NASA.

Researchers at Cambridge University made a big splash in April last year when they announced that they had strong evidence ...

Astronomers have captured the most dramatic view yet of a planet losing its atmosphere, watching the ultra-hot gas giant WASP ...

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

The James Webb telescope's search for habitable exoplanets is getting a big boost from its new star-watching companion, ...

Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four ...

The University of Arizona will serve as mission control for a newly launched space telescope designed to study distant ...

In a zesty new discovery, scientists have unearthed a strange lemon-shaped exoplanet. It is unlike one we have seen before, challenging many of the previously held assumptions about planetary ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

Deep beneath the surface of distant exoplanets known as super-Earths, oceans of molten rock may be doing something ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

It was more than 30 years ago when the first ever exoplanet was discovered. Since then, astronomers have discovered more than ...