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

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

A giant exoplanet orbiting a nearby dwarf star has been found in an ideal location for next-generation telescopes to search ...

If alien life exists on the newly discovered JG 251 c, we could know about it in the next 10 years.

The detection of a potentially rocky world around a nearby star opens up unprecedented prospects for the atmospheric ...

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 ...

The newly discovered world is called GJ 251c and it is a super-Earth orbiting a red dwarf star less than 20 light-years away.

This artist’s concept shows the volatile red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 and its four most closely orbiting planets, all of which have been observed by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). JWST has ...

The planets have been nicknamed Earth's seven sisters. — -- An international team of astronomers has discovered seven potentially habitable exoplanets — or planets outside our solar system — that ...

Earth" less than 20 light-years from our own planet is offering scientists new hope in the hunt for other worlds that could ...

Dr. Eric Ford, director of Penn State’s Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds, explains the search for planets beyond ...

Could scientists find life in the clouds of exoplanet atmospheres? This is what a manuscripton the arXiv preprint server ...