Researchers at Cornell University have developed the first-ever reflectance spectra — essentially a color-coded key — of the ...

Canadian astronomical research is getting a big boost with the return of Sara Seager to Canada after around 20 years at MIT.

A newly detected super-Earth just 20 light-years away is giving scientists one of the most promising chances yet to search ...

Investigate whether life could survive on the distant exoplanet Kepler 69c and what it might look like. Chris Hemsworth, ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered that aging stars in their so-called ...

Exoplanet scientists are eagerly awaiting the discovery of an atmosphere around a terrestrial exoplanet. Not a thin, tenuous, ...

Learn how exoplanets are discovered, what makes planets beyond our solar system unique, and how they drive the ongoing search ...

A planet recently scored 0.836 on the habitability index, slightly higher than Earth, using factors like orbit shape, ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three dimensions.

Researchers present strong evidence for a planet circling two brown dwarfs on a near polar path. The orbit is tilted almost ...

Through international collaboration, a team of astronomers has confirmed two exoplanets and found hints of a third exoplanet ...