New research has unveiled the potential for an atmosphere around an Earth -sized planet located approximately 40 light-years away. A team from the University of St Andrews has published a study on ...

The exploration and study of exoplanets have advanced significantly in recent years, leading scientists to reconsider how these distant worlds are classified. As our understanding deepens, so does ...

Exoplanet habitability depends on a whole host of factors, with liquid water at the top of the list. It also requires a stable atmosphere, the right chemistry, and possibly even things like plate ...

Science is driven by our desire to understand things. In some cases, where it requires significant effort and investment to develop systems that can understand new things, science benefits from a ...

Researchers say that on warm, water-depleted rocky exoplanets, the liquids could support alien life ...

A UC Riverside study suggests that exoplanets, which are planets orbiting stars outside our solar system, could also serve as tools to investigate dark matter.

Astronomers had hoped to observe an atmosphere on one of the seven planets known to orbit Trappist-1, a red dwarf star. A new study found nothing to write home about.

Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have found strong evidence for a new exoplanet — one orbiting Alpha Centauri A, the nearest sun-like star to Earth.