An international team of astronomers has identified a rare, potentially habitable super-Earth just 19.5 light-years from ...

Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system. In 1995, a gas giant named 51 Pegasi b, which orbits a star similar to Earth's sun, etched its name in history as the first exoplanet ever ...

Learn how exoplanets are discovered, what makes planets beyond our solar system unique, and how they drive the ongoing search for alien life in the universe.

For the first time, scientists have produced a 3D temperature map of the ultra-hot exoplanet WASP-18b, a gas giant that is so ...