Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

The supposed "strange signals" were not mysterious at all, but commonly observed transit signals, according to NASA.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time, if more detailed analyses verify preliminary observations from the James Webb ...

The hunt for worlds beyond our solar system has shifted from counting planets to confronting extremes that strain basic ...

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Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

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