Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave discuss an Earth-sized exoplanet, how ant colonies deal with disease and a possible link between volcanoes and the Black Death.

To test this idea, the new study looks at an exoplanet known as VHS 1256b. It has a mass of around 20 Jupiters and is one of ...

Fresh JWST data and new models challenge methane hints on TRAPPIST-1e, showing the gas would be rare, unstable, and difficult ...

After decades of searching, astronomers may have finally stumbled upon the first moon known to exist beyond our solar ...

More research is needed before scientists can determine whether the recently observed methane signatures point to the presence of an atmosphere or are simply the result of contamination from the host ...

NASA has released its first image of a planet outside of our solar system. Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to take a direct image of the exoplanet, described as a "gas giant." NASA ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS, the University of Warwick, and the Canary Islands ...

Planet hunters have grown used to strange worlds, but a handful of discoveries now point to something even more radical: giant planets that loop around their stars on orbits so skewed they almost defy ...

An international team has launched an ambitious program aimed at mapping exoplanets located around the "hot Neptune desert," a zone around the star where Neptune-type planets are largely ...

We sometimes throw around terms like "Earth-like" and "potentially habitable" when talking about exoplanets, but a newly discovered world just 40 light-years away earns the distinction. Two ...