A study suggesting the exoplanet K2-18b shows potential signs of alien life has been met with skepticism from the scientific ...

A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...

Study suggests Earth-like exoplanets may be common, based on microlensing data revealing super-Earths with distant orbits.

Astronomers have discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought. While it can be relatively easy to locate worlds that orbit close to their star, ...

A groundbreaking new study suggests that super-Earth exoplanets—rocky planets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune—may ...

A planet 140 light-years from Earth that is rapidly falling apart has been spotted by astronomers after they detected an ...

The Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA) on April 25 said the team with staff from the Korea Astronomy and Space Science ...

At 45, Nikku Madhusudhan has made the discovery of a lifetime. How did he know exactly where to look? What else could the ...

The planet is "crumbling to pieces," shedding the equivalent of Mount Everest’s mass every 30.5-hour orbit and will be ...

An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

The planet orbits its host star in just 30.5 hours, losing a mass of material roughly equal to Mount Everest each time ...

Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies ...