Exoplanet news, features and articles

Here's the reality: We're messing up the Earth and any far-out ideas of colonizing another orb when we're done with our own are wishful thinking.

This first-of-its-kind discovery reveals a new category of ultrahot exoplanet, one so thoroughly cooked that your cast-iron skillet would bubble, turn to gas and boil out of the atmosphere.

NASA's new exoplanet-hunting telescope has discovered its smallest planet yet: a world somewhere between the sizes of Earth and its smaller sister, Mars.

NASA scientists cooked up an alien atmosphere in their lab to solve the puzzle of "hot Jupiters."

There's a rocky planet in our stellar neighborhood that's very big and cold. However, scientists argue, it might still hold life.

Scientists think there's a giant new planet full of frozen water, and it's right down the cosmic street from Earth.

There's a telescope that can see thick rings of dust in distant star systems. And researchers want to use its data in a new way to spot hidden and migrating exoplanets.

A global, liquid-water ocean could exist under range of conditions on Proxima Centauri b, the closest known exoplanet to Earth.

How will we know when we've found another Earth?

TESS will have the ultimate view of the night sky from a perfect orbit around Earth.