The record-breaking winds are circling the nearby "puffy" exoplanet WASP-127b, and are traveling six times faster than the ...

An exoplanet called WASP-69 just earned some bragging rights with its gigantic tail, stretching longer than 40 Earths. The long structure, which is made up of gas leaking from the exoplanet's ...

For centuries, planets beyond our solar system—called exoplanets—existed only in theory and science fiction. It seemed nearly impossible to detect planets light-years away, since the ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

The AstroAI initiative, launched in 2023, uses AI to search for life on exoplanets, such as the exoplanet WASP-39 b imagined in this illustration. IMAGE NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) Could ...