European astronomers report the discovery of a second alien world in the TOI-1422 planetary system located some 500 light ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that ...

Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system. In 1995, a gas giant named 51 Pegasi b, which orbits a star similar to Earth's sun, etched its name in history as the first exoplanet ever ...

Researchers present strong evidence for a planet circling two brown dwarfs on a near polar path. The orbit is tilted almost 90 degrees to the pair’s motion. The system lies about 120 light-years from ...

Researchers have come up with a color-coded key that could prove crucial in detecting signs of life on exoplanet clouds.

Canadian astronomical research is getting a big boost with the return of Sara Seager to Canada after around 20 years at MIT.

A huge "super-Earth" with an extreme climate that results in it being habitable for only part of its orbit has been discovered orbiting a star 2,472 light years away. And the most remarkable thing is, ...

When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star's ...

Researchers have pinpointed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby M-dwarf star only 18 light-years away.