"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet." ...

The supposed "strange signals" were not mysterious at all, but commonly observed transit signals, according to NASA.

Researchers at Cambridge University made a big splash in April last year when they announced that they had strong evidence ...

A new exoplanet candidate has just burst onto the scene, and it may be one of the best alien worlds yet on which to search for extraterrestrial life. It's just 18 light-years away: a super-Earth named ...

That would make it thousands of times more massive than any moon orbiting a solar system plane  — so massive it could make ...

An international team of astronomers led from regional Queensland finds an exoplanet 150 light-years away with a 50 per cent ...

Could a recently discovered "super-Earth" have the potential temperature and conditions to sustain life? The new exoplanet is situated "fairly close to us" -- only 137 light-years away -- and orbits ...

Astronomers have captured the most dramatic view yet of a planet losing its atmosphere, watching the ultra-hot gas giant WASP ...

A recent study of an exoplanet 120 light-years away revealed it has elements that are believed to be essential in the formation of life. NASA studied K2-18 b, an exoplanet 8.6 times as massive as ...

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some exoplanets, like the one shown in this illustration, may have atmospheres that could make them potentially suitable for life.