How would detecting methane help astronomers identify if exoplanets, or even exomoons, have life as we know it, or even as we ...

An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star.

A rocky planet less than half the mass of Earth seems to have an atmosphere made almost entirely of sulphur dioxide – this ...

Thousands of exoplanets have been discovered, only a select few show promise. Here we look at some of the most habitable exoplanets ever discovered ranked through their similarity to Earth. The result ...

New research shows that star activity can distort exoplanet measurements, affecting size, temperature, and atmosphere ...

NASA's Pandora mission, launching in fall 2025, will study the atmospheres of over 20 exoplanets, focusing on clouds, hazes, ...

An international team of scientists has confirmed the discovery of exoplanet HD 20794 d, which potentially could support life ...

Using 20 years of data from the Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have discovered that turbulent stars could be corrupting ...

Scientists using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission have made a groundbreaking discovery: a massive exoplanet ...

The system is believed to be traveling at least 1.2 million miles per hour (1.93 million kilometers per hour), according to a ...

The exoplanet – a planet outside our solar system – has a mass six times greater than that of Earth, and orbits in the ...