Astronomers have recently detected potential signs of microbial life on the exoplanet K2-18b, an ocean-covered world located 120 light years from Earth. This discovery suggests that the planet could ...

Researchers at Cornell University have developed the first-ever reflectance spectra — essentially a color-coded key — of the ...

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Cloud cover is bad for picnics and for viewing stars through a telescope. But an exoplanet with dense or even total cloud ...

A team of international astronomers, led by Turkish doctoral student Selçuk Yalçınkaya, has unveiled four new exoplanets – ...

A global team of astronomers led by a Turkish scientist has discovered four new exoplanets, one of which lies within the ...

Researchers have created the first color key of sky-dwelling microbes to help detect signs of alien life in the clouds of ...

A superconducting kinetic inductance detector improves sensitivity limits needed for observing cold astrophysical objects, ...

Washington, DC— Our galaxy’s most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between magma oceans and primitive atmospheres during their early years, according ...

"Astronomers have wanted to spot a coronal mass ejection on another star for decades. We’ve now managed to do this for the ...