Researchers from the University of Oxford have discovered an exoplanet dubbed HD 20794 d ... Best of all, it's just 19.7 light-years away from Earth. This raises the tantalizing possibility ...

An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star.

Since the discovery of the first planet outside the solar system in the mid-1990s, the catalog of extrasolar planets, or "exoplanets ... Located around 858 light-years from Earth, WASP-121b ...

Supersonic winds on this exoplanet, designated WASP-127b ... VLT to trace the planet’s composition by measuring how the light of its host star travels through its upper atmosphere.

An exoplanet about 800 light-years away is spilling its guts into space, and new observations with the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, have let astronomers read the entrails, astronomers ...

If confirmed, the pair sets a new record for the fastest-moving exoplanet system ... Mount John Observatory in New Zealand—in search of light signals that betray the presence of exoplanets ...

Known as exoplanets, these make Neptune seem close indeed. The closest exoplanet – called Proxima Centauri b – is four light years away, or 24 trillion miles. NASA helpfully explains that if we were ...

Astronomers have identified a unique exoplanet, GJ 1214 b, nicknamed Enaiposha, which has defied previous classifications. This hazy planet, located about 47 light-years away from Earth ...