Exoplanets with Earth-like conditions could host life with structures and functions similar to Earth organisms, despite ...

The JWST has detected hydrogen, carbon dioxide, methane, and dimethyl sulfide in the atmosphere of a habitable sub-Neptune, ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered that aging stars in their so-called ...

Exoplanet scientists are eagerly awaiting the discovery of an atmosphere around a terrestrial exoplanet. Not a thin, tenuous, ...

What happens to planets as their stars age and come closer to death? This is what a recent study published in the Monthly ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made the first 3D map of an alien planet's atmosphere, revealing ...

Experiments at high temperatures and pressures reveal chemistry that can generate water on the surface of exoplanets ...

As telescopes have become more powerful, it's turned out our solar system is not the only game in town: There are millions of ...

A giant exoplanet orbiting a nearby dwarf star has been found in an ideal location for next-generation telescopes to search for potential signs of life. The discovery of a potential “super-Earth” loca ...

When stars like the Sun run out of hydrogen in their cores, fusion slows and the outer layers balloon outward. The star can ...

Astronomers have discovered that aging stars may be devouring their closest giant planets as they swell into red giants.

A new study using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has overturned long-held beliefs about mini-Neptune ...