Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is ...

Scientists have discovered a planet that is literally falling apart as it orbits its star. Located about 140 light-years from ...

The astronomers spotted the planet using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an MIT-led mission that ...

Researchers have developed a new coronagraph that could make it possible to see distant exoplanets obscured by light from their parent stars.

While the Webb Telescope watched exoplanet K2‑18b glide across its parent star, sulfur‑bearing gases appeared in the planet’s ...

TOI-270 d, located just 73 light years away, could be key to understanding a new class of planets. A study revealed it may be a giant rocky planet with a thick, hot atmosphere. NASA’s JWST detected ...