In the search for habitable exoplanets, atmospheric conditions play a key role in determining if a planet can sustain liquid ...

Using radial velocity measurements, an international team of astronomers has identified a second planet orbiting a nearby ...

An exoplanet has been discovered orbiting Barnard's star by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Barnard's stars is the closest single star to Earth. Credit: ESO ...

In hopeful news in the search for ET, researchers have discovered signs suggesting an atmosphere surrounding an Earth-like ...

These distant worlds are called exoplanets: planets that exist outside our solar system. Most of the exoplanets scientists have discovered so far orbit stars within the Milky Way, but some lie even ...

The cosmic butterfly has also produced plenty of PAHs – large hydrocarbon molecules that could play a key early role in ...

"Our approach gives astronomers an idea of how many spots a star might have, where they are located, and how bright or dark ...

The planet TRAPPIST-1e lies in its star’s Goldilocks zone, where water remains liquid – and an analysis suggests it might ...

What if we told you the NASA has found a planet were we could potentially dip our toes in a few generation? Meet TOI-270d, ...

An international team used NASA's JWST to observe a planet named Trappist-1 e, to determine if this rocky planet located within its star's habitable zone has an atmosphere. This planet is one of seven ...

Hundreds of distant planets may be far larger than scientists once believed. New research reveals that many exoplanets found by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) might have been ...

One of the worlds in the TRAPPIST-1 system, a mere 40 light-years away, just might be clad in a life-supporting atmosphere.