The discovery of a new exoplanet garnered some big, though somewhat misinformed, reactions online.

Five small exoplanets orbit closely around a red dwarf star called L 98-59, located 35 light-years away. A super-Earth, L 98-59 f, lies in the foreground of this illustration, believed to be ...

The hunt for potentially habitable rocky planets in our galaxy has been the holy grail of exoplanet studies for decades. While the discovery of more than 5,900 exoplanets in more than 4,400 ...

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New observations fail to confirm signs of life in the atmosphere of the distant planet K2-18b. They also raise questions about what it will take to detect biology light-years away.

Ph.D. student’s NASA-funded research leads to new insight on exoplanets Attila Varga is lead author of paper on a young, shrinking exoplanet using Chandra X-Ray Observatory ...

Discovery of 'super-Earth' exoplanet not as 'strange' as some reports claim The discovery of a new exoplanet garnered some big, though somewhat misinformed, reactions online.