A trip to planets outside our solar system could tell scientists a lot — even if no extraterrestrial life is found ...

What if humanity's search for life on other planets returns no hits? A team of researchers led by Dr. Daniel Angerhausen, a ...

At a famous 1950 lunch among physicists, Enrico Fermi wondered, "Where are all the aliens?" How far have we come toward ...

Instruments like PRIMA (Phase-Referenced Imaging and Micro-arcsecond Astrometry) will measure the astrometric wobble of a candidate star due to an exoplanet relative to a close-by ‘calibrator’ star, ...

Upcoming NASA and ESA missions, including Roman, PLATO, and Gaia, will significantly increase the number of known exoplanets. These observations will provide a more complete picture of planetary ...

A new mission concept that would see a fleet of telescopes probing rocky planets in their stars' habitable zones should be ...

Two planets outside the solar system have been identified orbiting a star located nearly 250 light-years away from Earth in ...

NASA has discovered a new world, named Gliese 12 b. It is roughly the size of Earth, lies in the habitable zone, and orbits every 12.8 days.

Understanding exoplanet evolution could help solve the mystery of the 'hot Neptune desert.' As astronomers delve deeper into the diversity of worlds orbiting distant stars, a new study suggests ...

Even if no life is found on other planets, smart survey design and careful statistics can still reveal how rare, or common, ...