Epsilon Indi Ab is a super Jupiter exoplanet 12 lightyears from Earth and was directly imaged by the James Webb Space ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have unravelled some of the secrets of a bizarre, blisteringly ...

Our circumstances here on the wondrous, life-supporting Earth can give us a false understanding of what the universe is really like. But our blue-skied, temperate planet is the extreme exception when ...

Evidence for the possible super-Earth has been lurking for years in NASA data. Pavel Rabtsevich found it—with a little help ...

From what I can gather, Freddie Mercury—the rightfully celebrated lead singer of Queen—was about the same height as I am. You might argue that, if you squint really hard, I am at best extremely ...

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, ...

From our corner of the big and complicated universe, it can be difficult to see worlds beyond the solar system in detail.

Scientists discover superhabitable planets orbiting K-dwarf stars that offer better conditions for life than Earth.

In about 5 billion years, our sun will start to die. But will it take Earth with it? Astronomers have spotted an exoplanet that suggests our planet might survive against the odds. EarthSky’s Will ...

Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of thousands of exoplanets, or planets that orbit other stars, and is potentially the ...

Astronomers have identified four exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star, a red dwarf star just 6 light-years away from Earth. No, really, this time it’s for real! We have to emphasize this because ...

Astronomers who identified HD 20794 d say its proximity to its host star and orbital pattern suggest it could hold water. Almost 30 years after the first planet outside our solar system was discovered ...