This shift is grounded in how scientists interpret the atmospheric data of distant planets, especially chemical markers like ...

For years, astronomers have celebrated every hint of an ocean on a distant world as a potential foothold for life. Now a new wave of modeling argues that most of those supposed seas are illusions, and ...

A rocky exoplanet outside the Earth's solar system may have an atmosphere, according to new evidence gathered by NASA researchers. The exoplanet, known as super-Earth TOI-561b, was discovered in 2020, ...

For many years, astronomers have been looking for extraterrestrial life. In doing so, astronomers have narrowed their search ...

"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet." ...

In a groundbreaking revelation, recent research indicates that the universe may harbor far more potentially habitable exoplanets than scientists had previously believed. This shift in understanding ...

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

Astonishingly, we can identify molecules present in the atmospheres of exoplanets.

An exoplanet orbiting a dwarf star 124 light-years from Earth made headlines around the world in April 2025. Researchers at the University of Cambridge reported that planet K2-18b could be a marine ...

Temperatures on the planet could make water theoretically possible. Astronomers are researching an Earth-like exoplanet that could contain water, according to NASA. The exoplanet, named TRAPPIST-1 e, ...

The planets have been nicknamed Earth's seven sisters. — -- An international team of astronomers has discovered seven potentially habitable exoplanets — or planets outside our solar system — that ...

Sub-Neptune exoplanets tend to be much closer to their host star than Earth is to the Sun and are thought to have atmospheres made of steam over layers of an exotic phase of water that behaves like ...