In 2020, astronomers detected WD 1856+534 b, a gas giant that orbits a star 81 light-years from Earth. This exoplanet, which ...

"It's like trying to spot a fish by looking for ripples in a pond, rather than trying to see the fish itself." ...

Astronomers published evidence of possible biosignatures on the planet K2-18b earlier this month, but another look at the data suggests the finding could be statistical noise ...

The Milky Way is known to host a diverse array of planetary systems, providing astronomers with extensive insights into how ...

A rare and dramatic scene unfolds 140 light-years from Earth. A rocky planet, once whole, is now crumbling to dust under the ...

A new study suggests that life may emerge rapidly on Earth-like planets once conditions become favorable. By analyzing ...

Does alien life exist on an exoplanet? On TikTok, a University of Oxford astrophysicist cast doubt that extraterrestrial life ...

An international study has revealed that super-Earth exoplanets, are significantly more common across the universe than ...

Using the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet), an international team of researchers has discovered that super-Earth ...

Researchers came to the conclusion that super-Earths can exist as far from their host star as our gas giants are from the sun ...

A distant flicker of light from a star can reveal more than you might expect. In fact, a brief, subtle brightening in the sky ...

The telescope may well have outdone itself by revealing evidence of life on a world about 120 light years from Earth.