When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...

In recent decades, exoplanets discovery has revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos. These distant worlds, orbiting stars beyond our Sun, have opened an entirely new chapter in astronomy. Once ...

PLANETS that were once not even considered candidates to host alien life might be reanalysed to find habitable regions after the discovery of unique bacteria. To date, our search for habitable worlds ...

Liquid water might not need a perfect location to exist, and neither might alien life. Researchers now believe that planets ...

Astronomers now understand that water-rich planets can form internally, even close to stars. A new study reveals that high-pressure reactions between hydrogen and molten rock within sub-Neptunes ...

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last 24 hours you might have noticed that NASA made a pretty huge announcement last night. NASA announced that it had found not one, but seven Earth-like ...

American space agency NASA announced the launch of an improved software called ExoMiner++ that is used to detect exoplanet ...

Update (Feb. 21, 2007): Two papers are online describing these results. They're technical, but if you're interested: one on HD 189733b and one on HD 209458b. Astronomers using the orbiting Spitzer ...

Astronomers have spotted more than 100 new potential alien planets, including one in the fourth-closest star system to the sun, a new study reports. This haul of newfound possible exoplanets, which ...

First-year students in Rochester Institute of Technology’s Science Exploration Program are reproducing a slice of life in their lab that might exist on the seven Earth-like planets recently discovered ...