Astronomers from the University of Geneva, working with colleagues in Canada and the United States, have captured the ...

Webb telescope discovered a bizarre exoplanet with carbon atmosphere, no hydrogen, orbiting a super-dense spinning star.

One of the main questions in exoplanet science concerns M dwarfs (red dwarfs) and the habitability of exoplanets that orbit ...

How are the most common types of planets made? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of ...

Earth exoplanets orbiting M-dwarf stars, identifying specific candidates that may have retained detectable atmospheres.

Exoplanets come up a lot these days, usually in headlines about distant stars, strange atmospheres, or the possibility of ...

There are hundreds of millions of planets around other stars in our Milky Way galaxy that may be habitable, argues a new research paper. These exoplanets (planets orbiting a star other than our sun) ...

The way we look at exoplanets is changing. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new method of studying alien planets might allow ...

The ingredients for life are spread throughout the universe. While Earth is the only known place in the universe with life, detecting life beyond Earth is a major goal of modern astronomy and ...

At 93 billion light years across, our observable universe seems full of unfathomable possibility. On Tuesday, the Nobel Prize Committee awarded the physics prize to three researchers whose scientific ...

In another exoplanetary first, the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile’s Atacama Desert has captured an image of two worlds orbiting a younger version of the Sun. The ...

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