"This planet could play a pivotal role in future missions... to search for biosignatures indicating potential life, " Dr.

"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

TOI-4860b is a fairly nearby planet in another star system located just 260 light-years away. It’s also quite strange. It’s a ...

Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...

“I’m now very enthusiastic to hear what other scientists can tell us about this newly discovered planet,” Dr. Michael Cretignier — a scientist with Oxford University, who first detected ...

First discovered in 2009, GJ 1214 b is described by the JWST team as being “sub-Neptune-sized” - smaller than the outermost ...

A planet that may support alien life has been discovered less than 20 light-years away from Earth - and it's believed to ...

An asteroid first spotted in December has a 1.2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Scientists are tracking the space rock to ...

Scientists have confirmed the discovery of a new planet which is six times as large as the Earth and could host alien life. The new planet, with a mass six times that of Earth's, orbits a star ...

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, astronomers have detected more than 7,000 of them in our galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered. At the same time, ...

NASA's famous Mars rover named Perseverance has discovered a 'one-of-a-kind treasure' while exploring the surface of the Red Planet.