A paper published in 2023 spurred discussion about whether life exists on an exoplanet named K2-18b. Two years later, the ...

The white dwarf star's habitable zone—the region in which an exoplanet could host life-supporting liquid water, among other traits—is much closer to the star compared to that of other stars such as ...

A new world has just been found orbiting a Sun-like star only 20 light-years away, and it could be one of the most promising ...

An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system ... "Having a planet in the habitable zone is not sufficient at all to have life on it," Cretignier told the Daily Mail. "Both Mars and Venus ...

Astronomers have detected a relatively close exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of its star, where temperatures are just right to support liquid water on the surface. There's still some ...

Astronomers have discovered nearly 6,000 planets beyond our own solar system. Here's how — and how we'll find even more.

In research highlighted in a new paper, published today in The Astrophysical Journal, Scientia Senior Lecturer Ben Montet and PhD candidate Brendan McKee analysed changes in the timing of a known ...

The sometimes monthly pronouncements that astronomers have detected yet another potentially habitable extrasolar planet, one that might possibly harbor life, have become somewhat akin to Aesop’s ...

Dr. Cretignier first identified a candidate exoplanet signal in 2022 ... Although the planet is located in the system's habitable zone, it is too early to say whether it could host life.

And planets in the "habitable zone" around stars could be consistent with anything from a blazing hell to a frozen rock. Like the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), Kepler identifies ...