This summer, exoplanet science — the study of planets orbiting stars beyond our sun — took a big step forwards. Reports of helium gas escaping from the atmosphere of LHS 1140b propelled this exoplanet ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This artist’s concept depicts a potential volcanic exomoon between the exoplanet WASP-49Ab, left, and its parent star. If you ...

James Webb reveals how powerful winds and extreme temperature differences create an unusual atmospheric bulge on the giant ...

The search for life beyond Earth requires expanding the very definition of what life can be. Some exoplanets, especially those orbiting cooler red dwarfs, might host purple plant life rather than the ...

Until now, the alien white-hot worlds of exoplanets have been depicted as circular, but new research has revealed the true ...

Scientists may have detected more than 10,000 never-before-seen exoplanets in a single survey, potentially tripling the number of known alien worlds in one fell swoop. The record-breaking haul was ...

James Webb Space Telescope image of 14 Herculis c, a planet orbiting a star 60 lightyears away that's one of the strangest ...

The search for extraterrestrial life in the universe is unlikely to end anytime soon. Researchers at Northern Arizona ...

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Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of thousands of exoplanets, or planets that orbit other stars, and is potentially the ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered that a distant alien planet's atmosphere is surprisingly lopsided. Located 1,300 light-years away, the scorching gas giant WASP-17b ...