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.

Scientists want a new mission to hunt for life beyond Earth - A trip to planets outside our solar system could tell ...

The planets are all too hot for life as we know it, but astronomers haven’t given up searching for more planets in Barnard's ...

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

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering mystery about how distant planets form, researchers said.

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...

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 ...

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 ...

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