For years, astronomers have searched the cosmos for planets capable of supporting life. Most efforts focus on the "habitable zone," the region around a star where a planet could have liquid water. But ...

Exoplanets may harbor alien life; scientists seek biosignatures through advanced exploration. Could they lead to humanity's ...

Florida Tech's Caldon Whyte is two years into a lengthy universe exploration to earn his Ph.D. in space sciences. After ...

Kepler-62 currently hosts five known exoplanets, with two of them orbiting within its star’s habitable zone. Additionally, while Kepler-62 is still demonstrating nuclear fusion, like our Sun, white ...

Scientists from UNSW Sydney have located a potential new exoplanet—a planet that orbits a star outside ... they have ...

NASA has confirmed over 5,000 exoplanets, ranging from scorching gas giants to icy water worlds, some with the potential to ...

For years, astronomers have sought a way to directly observe the atmospheres of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars.

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

To understand how these exoplanets might behave, the team used a 3D global climate model ... A planet’s rotation determines how heat is distributed across its surface, which in turn affects its ...

Earth, HD 20794 d, in the habitable zone around a Sun-like star 20 light-years away. With a mass six times that of Eart ...