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 ...

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

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

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...