Exoplanets—planets that orbit stars beyond our solar system—have transformed our understanding of the universe. Since the ...

"Given everything we know about this planet, a Hycean world with an ocean that is teeming with life is the scenario that best ...

Astronomers have detected molecules on exoplanet K2-18b that may have been produced by simple organisms, claiming it's the strongest evidence yet of life off Earth.

For this reason, not much consideration has been given to these stars’ ability to host habitable exoplanets,” Aomawa Shields, a professor of physics and astronomy at U.C. Irvine, explained in ...

Observations by the James Webb space telescope find possible biological activity on a giant planet 124 light-years from Earth ...

We tend to think of habitability in terms of individual planets and their potential to host life. But barring outliers like ...

Roman was similarly designed with a focused set of science goals, including exploring an uncharted region of exoplanet ...

(Web Desk) - A ‘super-Earth’ exoplanet has been found outside of our solar system and it could have the right conditions to ...

Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets that have been confirmed so far and many more thousands of candidates, most orbit stars the ...

Dimethyl sulfide is cool—and a potential biosignature—but scientists are urging caution before we declare a plankton party ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has investigated an exoplanet that’s super cool — literally. The huge planet, which is six ...

Neptune, TOI-270 d provides a critical opportunity to understand atmospheric composition and planetary evolution in a ...