Learn how exoplanets are discovered, what makes planets beyond our solar system unique, and how they drive the ongoing search ...

As more and more exoplanets are discovered throughout the galaxy, scientists find some that defy explanation—at least for ...

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

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

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a main guiding principle. “All life on Earth needs liquid water, no matter ...

Stronger links between researchers who work on Earth’s and other planets’ atmospheres, and between the experimental, ...

In a significant breakthrough, scientists have identified three Earth-sized exoplanets in a binary star system, potentially ...

"Mauve will help us understand which stars are likely to be damaging for a life environment." The world's first commercial deep space astronomy telescope is set to search for stars that could host ...

Astronomers have discovered phosphine gas in the atmosphere of an ancient brown dwarf, Wolf 1130C, using the James Webb Space ...

For the study, the researchers made several remarkable and new discoveries: the two M-type stars that comprise the binary ...

Researchers have uncovered three Earth-sized planets in the binary system TOI-2267, offering fresh insights into planetary ...

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