Thousands of exoplanets have been discovered, only a select few show promise. Here we look at some of the most habitable exoplanets ever discovered ranked through their similarity to Earth. The result ...

Astronomers have spotted two "super-Earth" exoplanets orbiting within the habitable zone of a nearby star. Each of the newfound exoplanets is slightly larger than our planet, and both circle the same ...

If any giant planets orbited Eta Cassiopeiae A within about 8 AU, astronomers could spot their telltale signature in the spectrum of light from the star. And since no planets at all can survive the ...

A new study has identified an exoplanet that is just 3 million years old — around 1,500 times younger than Earth — alongside a misaligned protoplanetary disk that researchers cannot explain. When you ...

Two gas planets have atmospheres peppered with barium — the heaviest element detected in any exoplanet atmosphere so far 1. WASP-76b and WASP-121b are both ‘hot Jupiters’, large gas planets that orbit ...