As astronomers delve deeper into the diversity of worlds orbiting distant stars, a new study suggests comparing populations ...

Finding evidence of life in the cosmos is the “holy grail” of exoplanet science, one of the scientists said, but there is ...

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

The peer-reviewed report in the Astrophysical Journal Letters presents more questions than answers, acknowledges numerous ...

The James Webb Space Telescope may have detected life-associated gas in the atmosphere of a far-off planet. The news is being ...

The James Webb Space Telescope may have detected life-associated gas in the atmosphere of a far-off planet. The news is being ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

To confirm the rarely detected space oddity, astronomers utilized radial velocity calculations to examine data previously collected by NASA’s Kepler space telescope, the Transiting Exoplanet ...

The planet in question, K2-18b, was discovered in 2015 by NASA's Kepler mission, which revealed that planets outside our solar system are so common that they outnumber stars. K2-18b orbits a cool ...

K2-18b was first discovered by Nasa’s Kepler Space Telescope in 2015. The planet orbits its parent star, a small, relatively cool one known as a red dwarf, in just 33 days. The planet’s ...