The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study 25 hot Jupiters. It has helped to answer "questions important to our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA’s Exoplanet Travel Bureau turned abstract data into retro travel posters, blending science and art to make alien worlds feel ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A rocky exoplanet outside the Earth's solar system may have an atmosphere, according to new evidence gathered by NASA researchers.

Oxygen on exoplanets can be the result of simple chemical processes rather than biological ones.

The team compiled what they describe as a "catalogue of opportunity" - a shortlist of worlds sitting in the so-called habitable zone, where conditions may allow liquid water to exist.

Scientists have identified 45 Earth-like exoplanets that are the strongest known candidates for hosting extraterrestrial life.

This artist’s concept shows what a gas giant orbiting Alpha Centauri A could look like. Observations of the triple star system Alpha Centauri using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope indicate the ...

Could a recently discovered "super-Earth" have the potential temperature and conditions to sustain life? The new exoplanet is situated "fairly close to us" -- only 137 light-years away -- and orbits ...

How many planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets, exist throughout the Milky Way Galaxy? While that might never be determined, NASA recently announced the total number of confirmed ...

If we're to find extraterrestrial life in the universe, astronomers have pinpointed the best places to look for it. They have ...

A red dwarf star 330 light-years away appears to be annihilating a baby Jupiter-size planet in its orbit. Credit: NASA / CXC / SAO / M. Weiss illustration Astronomers have taken a close look at one of ...

When scientists discovered the first planet orbiting another star in 1995, few outside astronomy circles noticed. That planet, 51 Pegasi b, opened the door to a field that now boasts more than 5,000 ...