The search for life beyond Earth is a holy grail quest for many experts, but finding where to look is a core issue.

Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme. At least, that's what astronomers found when ...

Astriking discovery by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unveiled the bizarre and fascinating nature of the exoplanet ...

Astronomers have taken what they say are the first-ever direct images of planets outside of our solar system, including a visible-light snapshot of a single-planet system and an infrared picture ...

An extrasolar planet, also called an exoplanet, is a planet that orbits a star (i.e. is part of a solar system) other than our own. Our Solar System is only one among billions and many of them ...

Some exoplanets in their stars' habitable zones may be distinctly uninhabitable due to solar flaring. Red dwarfs are known for powerful flaring, and since they're dim and their habitable zones are ...

An extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, is a planet beyond the Solar System. As of 11 November 2006, 209 extrasolar planets have been discovered.

Name: Gáspár Bakos Title: Assistant Professor of Astrophysical Sciences Scholarly focus: Bakos joined the Princeton faculty in 2011 and focuses much of his research on extrasolar planets, or ...

Astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets, or worlds beyond the solar system.; In June, researchers announced they had logged the 4,000th such planet into a NASA catalog. The first was ...

As scientists improve on our ability to detect extrasolar planets and launch new observatories like the Kepler, the collection of exoplanets continues to rise. But, so far, we haven't been able to ...

An extrasolar planet named TOI-1452 b was recently discovered by an international team of researchers led by Charles Cadieux, a graduate student at the Université de Montréal and member of the ...

Plant Life On Extrasolar Earthlike Planets Could Be Black Date: June 20, 2007 Source: Washington University in St. Louis Summary: Scientists seeking clues to life on extrasolar planets are ...