A team of researchers has demonstrated a new way in which sub-Neptune-sized exoplanets could produce a great deal of water.

For a decade and a half, astronomers have been on the trail of a galactic mystery. In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers have detected a new exoplanet orbiting a bright K-type star known as TOI-283. The newfound alien world, ...

For the first time in years, astronomers are seriously talking about adding a new member to the solar system’s planetary ...

Where will we first find life beyond Earth? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to ...

Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far.

A Neptune-sized planet closely orbiting its host star has just been discovered, making it only the fourth object of its kind ever identified. Scientists detected the planet, designated TOI-3261 b, ...

A super-Neptune orbiting a star is zipping through space at 1.2 million miles per hour—or potentially faster. Reading time 3 minutes A small star and its orbiting planet are flying through the Milky ...

Nearly a century after Pluto’s discovery, astronomers are still hunting for mysterious planets beyond Neptune - including a ...

How fast can solar systems orbit our Milky Way Galaxy? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to address as an international team of researchers confirmed the ...