Alien planets are far away but extreme lasers on Earth are giving scientists a way to investigate what they're like.

Astronomers have discovered an additional 100 new worlds in data collected by NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS, ...

Planets that once lived only in pulp novels and movie concept art are now turning up in real data. Astronomers are not just finding distant worlds, they are cataloguing places with molten surfaces, ...

Have you ever wondered how to make water from scratch? Exoplanets orbing other stars may have cooked up a new recipe. Manufacturing water is a relatively simple chemical process, albeit a dangerous ...

Atmospheric insights into alien worlds emerge as JWST studies filtered starlight passing through distant exoplanet atmospheres. Pixabay, Vilkasss The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) represents a ...