If alien life exists on the newly discovered JG 251 c, we could know about it in the next 10 years.

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers have detected a new exoplanet ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and ...

Many planets featured in Star Trek TNG share traits that scientists now look for when identifying exoplanets: rocky terrain, ...

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A recently discovered exoplanet, a planet that exists beyond our solar system, called GJ 251c is a super-Earth located just 18 light-years away from our ...

A coronal mass ejection on another star has been witnessed in its entirety for the first time, revealing that when these ...

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The gas giant WASP-18b belongs to a class known as ultra-hot Jupiters — giant, searing, gaseous planets that orbit perilously close to their stars. Researchers used a new technique called ...

The JWST has detected hydrogen, carbon dioxide, methane, and dimethyl sulfide in the atmosphere of a habitable sub-Neptune, ...

The idea was that as an alien civilization advances, its technology becomes too sophisticated for us to detect. We could ...

The first picture of a planet outside our solar system may actually depict a swirl of space dust, a new study suggests.