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

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

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

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

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

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

Here's where the James Webb Space Telescope comes in. Its advanced technology, including its large mirror and suite of ...

He was pushing for a brand-new technique for detecting exoplanets by measuring the blip in light when a planet passes in front of a star, known as the transit method. But many scientists were ...

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

A special exoplanet has been discovered in space, which sheds the label of ordinary, with features of a mini-Neptune and a super-Venus. Enaiposha, also known as GJ 1214 b, is a red dwarf star ...

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, ...