Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 have been found ...

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

New research points toward an exoplanet that may be capable of supporting life 20 light-years away from Earth.

Astronomers who identified HD 20794 d say its proximity to its host star and orbital pattern suggest it could hold water.

According to astronomers, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in our observable universe — chances are, ...

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

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, ...

Here are some pics of most earth-like exoplanets uploaded by NASA: Gliese 667Cc, 22 light-years from Earth, is 4.5 times Earth's mass, orbits its cooler red dwarf star in 28 days, and likely resides ...