A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

How would detecting methane help astronomers identify if exoplanets, or even exomoons, have life as we know it, or even as we ...

Around a star just 20 light-years from the Solar System, astronomers have confirmed the existence of what might be a ...

The planet was originally identified two years earlier by Oxford University scientist Dr Michael Cretignier. The finding has ...

An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star.

SETI scientists suggest that extraterrestrial civilizations could detect Earth through 'technosignatures' like planetary ...

NASA's Pandora mission, launching in fall 2025, will study the atmospheres of over 20 exoplanets, focusing on clouds, hazes, ...

HWO will be the first space telescope built to find potentially habitable planets and analyze their atmospheres for signs of ...

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

Scientists believe the exoplanet HD 20794 d, six times the mass of Earth, could harbour liquid water on its surface.