In the search for alien life, one Cornell researcher says color may be a telltale sign of biosignatures on far-off exoplanets ...

Astronomers have announced the discovery of a nearby super Earth that could potentially support alien life — drawing comparisons to theories surrounding Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS, which some ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study 25 hot Jupiters. It has helped to answer "questions important to our ...

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.

In the beginning, when planets were newborn, they glowed like furnaces, vast oceans of molten rock wrapped in heavy blankets ...

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a main guiding principle. “All life on Earth needs liquid water, no matter ...

How do moons form around gas giant planets? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes ...

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

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

According to the researchers, because it is rocky and located in the star's habitable zone, it may be habitable.

What can a 3D map of an exoplanet’s atmosphere teach astronomers about the planet’s formation, evolution, and composition?

Tests on olivine hint that water-rich exoplanets could generate H2O internally, possibly explaining ocean worlds and even some of Earth’s early water.