How will NASA's upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) mission differentiate Earth-sized exoplanets from other ...

With the discovery of ever more exoplanets—over 6,000 now—scientists, of course, want to know if they are habitable for life.

Scientists got a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons could ...

Astronomers around the world have confirmed over 6,000 exoplanets, a milestone reached in September 2025. Billions more are ...

A new study rules out the existence of global oceans of water on Neptune-like planets such as K2-18b, finding their water ...

Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time, if more ...

Fast-forward to today: we’ve gone from one lonely planet to a catalog of thousands. The pace is accelerating. In 2015, NASA’s ...

The striking thing about this is that repeating the procedure on the star turned up no evidence of carbon-based chemicals, ...

The planet TRAPPIST-1e lies in its star’s Goldilocks zone, where water remains liquid – and an analysis suggests it might ...

St. Andrews University physicists who looked at the planet said that the research conjures "two possible explanations." ...

"The complexity of the exo-Neptunian landscape provides offers a unique window onto the processes involved in the formation ...