"We've often seen the 'baby pictures' of planets forming, but until now, the 'teenage years' have been a missing link." ...

"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet." ...

An international team including Cornell researcher Jake Turner has developed a novel analysis method capable of uncovering ...

The interstellar visitor may still have a few things to tell us before it leaves our solar system.

Scientists have discovered over 6,000 planets that orbit stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets. More than half of ...

Life as we know it needs liquid water. For liquid water to exist on a given planet, it has to lie in a specific region called ...

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

Astronomers have captured the most dramatic view yet of a planet losing its atmosphere, watching the ultra-hot gas giant WASP ...

For many years, astronomers have been looking for extraterrestrial life. In doing so, astronomers have narrowed their search ...

Have you ever wondered if there is life on another planet? Exoplanets may hold the key to this question.

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar system for the first time, scientists announced Monday. The gas giants are not ...