New research points toward an exoplanet that may be capable of supporting life 20 light-years away from Earth.

Astronomers who identified HD 20794 d say its proximity to its host star and orbital pattern suggest it could hold water.

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, astronomers have detected more than 7,000 of them in our galaxy. But ...

An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 have been found ...

Moving at roughly 20,505 miles per hour along the distant world's equator, it’s the fastest known jet stream that wraps ...

HWO will be the first space telescope built to find potentially habitable planets and analyze their atmospheres for signs of ...

An international research team with Swiss participation has discovered an exoplanet with a special property. According to the ...

With winds blowing at 20,500 mph, "the planet has complex weather patterns just like Earth and other planets of our own ...

Astronomers discovered the exoplanet in 2016, a gas giant that’s slightly larger than Jupiter with a fraction of its mass, ...

Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half ...

Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...