A distant flicker of light from a star can reveal more than you might expect. In fact, a brief, subtle brightening in the sky ...

Using the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet), an international team of researchers has discovered that super-Earth ...

Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies ...

A new AI model from the University of Bern predicts planetary systems likely to host Earth-like planets. It could boost the ...

Does alien life exist on an exoplanet? On TikTok, a University of Oxford astrophysicist cast doubt that extraterrestrial life ...

Artificial intelligence is transforming the search for alien life with new tools that detect UAPs and identify Earth-like ...

Study suggests Earth-like exoplanets may be common, based on microlensing data revealing super-Earths with distant orbits.

The image of Luke Skywalker gazing wistfully across the desert of Tatooine while a pair of “suns” set on the horizon is among ...

K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know ...

Scientists have discovered an exoplanet 140 light-years away that's rapidly disintegrating as it orbits its star every 30 ...

The findings in the study were made via microlensing, an observational effect that occurs when the presence of mass warps the ...

Astronomers have discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought. While it can be relatively easy to locate worlds that orbit close to their star, ...