Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets with twice the diameter of Earth.

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

An artist’s rendering of Barnard’s Star, as seen from one of the newly discovered exoplanets orbiting it International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / P. Marenfeld under CC BY 4.0 ...

Young Gas Giant HR 8799 e (NIRCam Spectrum) / Credit: NASA Astronomers have now discovered nearly 6,000 exoplanets, many of them massive — and none of them known to be habitable. The "huge leap ...

What can Venus-like exoplanets, also known as exoVenuses, teach us about our own solar system and potentially finding life ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar ...

For the study, the researchers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to analyze the atmospheres of exoplanets residing in the systems HR 8799 and 51 Eridani (51 Eri) with the direct imaging ...