A nearby binary star system is bereft of giant planets, but scientists think it may still be a decent place to look for life. Binary star system Eta Cassiopeiae, located just 19 light-years away, ...

News that a NASA scientist has announced fresh progress on Proxima b has pushed our nearest known exoplanet neighbor back ...

The largest known exoplanet has seven times the radius of Jupiter, 752 times its mass, and would take five months to ...

The team discovered that the surface might contain liquid water, an essential ingredient for life. Astronomers from the, Irvine have discovered a planet orbiting within the “habitable zone” of its ...

There are lots of reasons to search for planets around other stars—exoplanets. A big one is to find other places in the universe that might harbor life. We only know of one ...

Earth," is situated in a relatively close region of the Milky Way Galaxy and resembles Earth in appearance but is many times ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and elsewhere, have discovered two new exoplanets orbiting M-dwarf stars. The ...

Exoplanet discoveries have reshaped astronomy. Are exomoons next? Brian Greene in conversation with David Kipping ...

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

Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system that most often orbit a star. Astronomers have managed to bring an exoplanet into unprecedented focus by using a technique the researchers call 3D ...