For many years, astronomers have been looking for extraterrestrial life. In doing so, astronomers have narrowed their search ...

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...

A newly discovered exoplanet, TOI-561 b, is shaking up conventional theories about planetary atmospheres. According to a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, this ultra-hot ...

Deep beneath the surface of distant exoplanets known as super-Earths, oceans of molten rock may be doing something ...

Astonishingly, we can identify molecules present in the atmospheres of exoplanets.

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 ...

In a groundbreaking revelation, recent research indicates that the universe may harbor far more potentially habitable exoplanets than scientists had previously believed. This shift in understanding ...

In newly published research, CU Boulder scientists study a rocky exoplanet outside our solar system, learning more about whether and how planets maintain atmospheres In June 2019, Harvard ...

No planets cooler than about 35.33 degrees Fahrenheit had ever been detected. An exoplanet discovered in 2020 contains the coldest temperatures ever measured on a planetary body, according to ...

The University of Arizona will serve as mission control for a newly launched space telescope designed to study distant ...