A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

Since the Kepler Space Telescope began its prowl for exoplanets in 2009, it has uncovered a strange pattern among these alien ...

Discovered by volunteer scientists, this alien planet is out of synch with its siblings ...

In a zesty new discovery, scientists have unearthed a strange lemon-shaped exoplanet. It is unlike one we have seen before, ...

The hunt for worlds beyond our solar system has shifted from counting planets to confronting extremes that strain basic ...

A team of astronomers has announced the discovery of a new, exotic class of exoplanets: super-Earths formed at high ...

Combining two kinds of quantum computing devices could be just the trick for taking better images of faint, faraway ...

Scientists are unraveling the mysteries of "steam worlds"—exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes that are rich in water but orbit so close to their stars that their surfaces are shrouded in thick ...

Science fiction writer and futurist Arthur C. Clarke once said, “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” And perhaps that fear is what ...