NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has spotted early signs of an atmosphere on TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized exoplanet 40 light years away. The discovery raises hopes that this distant world could host ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope are unraveling the mysteries of TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized exoplanet 40 ...

Scientists have gotten a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons like the ...

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

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

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earth-like planets are common—if it can get off the ground ...

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

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

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