Astronomers have discovered a strange new type of exoplanet known as a Hycean world—an ocean-covered planet with a thick ...

A new study shows that stars with low magnetic activity are likely to support exoplanetary systems, making the hunt for these ...

Astronomers in a recent breakthrough have identified a first-of-its-kind planet characterised with a unique hellscape and ...

Oxygen has been the most important gas in our search for life among the cosmos thus far. On Earth, we have it in abundance ...

Latest observations of L98-59d, about 35 light years from Earth, suggest it could be different to anything seen before ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet, L98-59d, composed of molten lava, indicating the potential existence of an entirely new ...

A thick layer of haze around the ultra-low-density planet Kepler-51d likely obscures not only the strange planet's ...

Astronomers have discovered a bizarre exoplanet slightly larger than Earth, covered by a vast magma ocean and wrapped in a ...

Kepler-51d is a giant, ultra-light “super-puff” planet wrapped in an unusually thick haze that’s blocking scientists from ...

New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder ...

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant ...

A newly studied exoplanet, Kepler-51d, is wrapped in an unusually dense layer of haze that may be hiding both what it is made ...