A distant flicker of light from a star can reveal more than you might expect. In fact, a brief, subtle brightening in the sky ...

Does alien life exist on an exoplanet? On TikTok, a University of Oxford astrophysicist cast doubt that extraterrestrial life ...

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

A team of scientists has discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought.

A rare and dramatic scene unfolds 140 light-years from Earth. A rocky planet, once whole, is now crumbling to dust under the ...

Remember those claims that signs of life may have been detected on an exoplanet? Scientists have been skeptical about the claim, and now new, independent research is adding to that skepticism.

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

Using the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet), an international team of researchers has discovered that super-Earth ...

Super-Earths are exoplanets that are much larger than our home, but smaller than Neptune and Uranus. They are likely much ...

The image of Luke Skywalker gazing wistfully across the desert of Tatooine while a pair of “suns” set on the horizon is among ...

The findings in the study were made via microlensing, an observational effect that occurs when the presence of mass warps the ...

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, ...