Scientists have developed a new and improved method to better understand "steam world" exoplanets, a move that could refocus ...

The exploration and study of exoplanets have advanced significantly in recent years, leading scientists to reconsider how ...

Hundreds of distant planets may be far larger than scientists once believed. New research reveals that many exoplanets found ...

A team of scientists is developing a "quantum-sensitive" device that could capture direct images of Earth-like exoplanets — something astronomers tend to consider so difficult it's nearly ...

An ultra-short period planet is spiraling toward destruction within 31 million years. Its extreme heat and dense composition reveal a violent past. Our circumstances here on the wondrous, ...

Astronomers have located a rare exoplanet on the edge of the Milky Way. The exoplanet, a gas giant named AT2021uey b, orbits a low-mass star and is located about 3,200 light-years away from Earth ...

According to the paper laying out the research behind the discovery, "TOI-1846b is a super-Earth-sized planet, with a radius of approximately 1.8R⊕, placing it within the intriguing radius valley area ...

These observations link the disk population directly to the exoplanet population." Finally, our planetary system lacks a super-Earth, the creation of which seems favored by small protoplanetary disks.

A UC Riverside study suggests that exoplanets, which are planets orbiting stars outside our solar system, could also serve as ...

This illustration shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs –– objects bigger than gas-giant planets but too small to be proper stars. ESO/M. Kornmesser Astronomers have discovered a ...

Rather, observations have allowed scientists to conclude that the exoplanet could be a Hycean world covered by ocean water underneath a hydrogen-rich atmosphere. Could alien life thrive on K2-18b?

So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully understand it, but the first evidence for exoplanets was found in 1917.