When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a ...

It's just 18 light-years away: a super-Earth named GJ 251c with a minimum mass about 3.84 times that of our own planet. The ...

As more and more exoplanets are discovered throughout the galaxy, scientists find some that defy explanation—at least for ...

About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 b ushered in a new era of exoplanet research.

After marking the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the first exoplanet around a sun-like star, we now look forward to ...

Stronger links between researchers who work on Earth’s and other planets’ atmospheres, and between the experimental, ...

A recently discovered exoplanet, a planet that exists beyond our solar system, called GJ 251c is a super-Earth located just 18 light-years away from our ...

Researchers have uncovered three Earth-sized planets in the binary system TOI-2267, offering fresh insights into planetary ...

Why is it important to know about exoplanets having their atmospheres stripped while orbiting F-type stars? This is what a ...

A planet recently scored 0.836 on the habitability index, slightly higher than Earth, using factors like orbit shape, ...

The JWST has detected hydrogen, carbon dioxide, methane, and dimethyl sulfide in the atmosphere of a habitable sub-Neptune, ...

TOI-2267 consists of two stars, both orbited by exoplanets roughly the size of Earth. This is particularly exciting for ...