The supposed "strange signals" were not mysterious at all, but commonly observed transit signals, according to NASA.

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

Deep beneath the surface of distant exoplanets known as super-Earths, oceans of molten rock may be doing something ...

The James Webb telescope's search for habitable exoplanets is getting a big boost from its new star-watching companion, ...

The University of Arizona will serve as mission control for a newly launched space telescope designed to study distant ...

Discovered by volunteer scientists, this alien planet is out of synch with its siblings ...

Combining two kinds of quantum computing devices could be just the trick for taking better images of faint, faraway ...

Since the Kepler Space Telescope began its prowl for exoplanets in 2009, it has uncovered a strange pattern among these alien ...

One of the main questions in exoplanet science concerns M dwarfs (red dwarfs) and the habitability of exoplanets that orbit ...

Scientists have discovered more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system. What if some of them aren't planets at all, but ...