Scientists use James Webb Space Telescope to make 1st 3D map of exoplanet — and it's so hot, it rips apart water ...

An international team of astronomers has shown for the first time that it is possible to map exoplanets using a technique ...

Astronomers have generated the first three-dimensional map of a planet orbiting another star, revealing an atmosphere with ...

Exoplanets are planets that orbit a star outside the solar system. NASA on Monday announced scientists recently added 301 exoplanets to the total tally, increasing the number of exoplanets discovered ...

You’ve seen hundreds of artist’s interpretations of exoplanets like Zarmina and the many others discovered over the past decade. But what does it really look like when astronomers see an exoplanet ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland, July 12, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CCP Games has added the ability for players of its massively multiplayer online game EVE Online to help search for distant planets outside of our ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

A star's magnetic field must be considered in order to correctly determine the characteristics of exoplanets from observations by space telescopes such as Kepler, James Webb, or PLATO. Researchers ...

Humble oxygen is more than just a building block of life. The element could also help scientists sneak a peek into the innards of planets orbiting faraway stars, a new study suggests. Laboratory ...

The type of orbit an exoplanet occupies could result in astronomers missing out on possible radio transmissions coming from the planet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

NASA has released two horror movie-style posters for Halloween, celebrating two real exoplanets where the conditions would be frightful for any human. The agency has also made them downloadable so you ...

People keep writing science fiction stories about their own made-up planets — but there are plenty of real exoplanets out there to obsess about now. And two scientists from the Kepler Spacecraft ...