A giant exoplanet orbiting a nearby dwarf star has been found in an ideal location for next-generation telescopes to search ...

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

Learn how exoplanets are discovered, what makes planets beyond our solar system unique, and how they drive the ongoing search ...

In a significant breakthrough, scientists have identified three Earth-sized exoplanets in a binary star system, potentially ...

The newly discovered world is called GJ 251c and it is a super-Earth orbiting a red dwarf star less than 20 light-years away.

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a main guiding principle. “All life on Earth needs liquid water, no matter ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A super-Earth basks in the glow of its star in this artist's impression. Is the world habitable ...

Exoplanet scientists are eagerly awaiting the discovery of an atmosphere around a terrestrial exoplanet. Not a thin, tenuous, ...

A new exoplanet candidate has just burst onto the scene, and it may be one of the best alien worlds yet on which to search ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

The team received their initial indications regarding these three remote Earth-like planets when they analysed data from Nasa ...

The first world beyond our Solar System to be mapped in three dimensions a gas giant almost ten times more massive than ...