VISIONS of leaving Earth and launching humanity further into the cosmos are enough to get anyone starry-eyed. But the ...

According to Nasa, "these doomed worlds were among the first [exoplanets] to be discovered as they orbit an undead star known as a pulsar. "Pulsar planets like Poltergeist and neighbors Phobetor ...

A new study modeled the chemistry of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet between Earth and Neptune in size, finding evidence that it could be a giant rocky planet shrouded in a thick, hot atmosphere.

Astronomers at the University of Arizona imaged the extrasolar planets, or "exoplanets," using the sophisticated Magellan Adaptive Optics Xtreme (MagAO-X) instrument paired with the 6.5-meter ...

Here’s how it works. Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but are unlike any in our own solar system. The two exoplanets ...

Even a lack of biosignatures on examined exoplanets can still tell us a lot about the probability of life on the billions of planets we haven’t checked out yet, according to a study in The ...

A team of researchers led by Dr. Daniel Angerhausen, a Physicist in Professor Sascha Quanz's Exoplanets and Habitability Group at ETH Zurich and a SETI Institute affiliate, tackled this question ...

Normally, the Webb telescope only detects exoplanets by glimpsing them when they cross in front of their host star. This "transiting method" was how Webb indirectly detected CO 2 in the atmosphere ...

SEE ALSO: Webb telescope captures weird auroras on Neptune for the first time The sun's nearest stellar neighbor, Proxima Centauri, likely clobers any orbiting exoplanets with radiation ...

An artist’s rendering of Barnard’s Star, as seen from one of the newly discovered exoplanets orbiting it International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / P. Marenfeld under CC BY 4.0 ...

The key to answering these questions and more lies in the search for exoplanets -- planets outside our solar system -- a search that will be accelerated by the scheduled launch of the Nancy Grace ...

Could animals adapt to an exoplanet’s extreme conditions? Imagine a planet light-years away with conditions beyond Earth’s wildest environments perhaps scorching temperatures, freezing cold ...