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 ...

NASA has made a groundbreaking discovery: planets that may be more habitable than Earth. These newly identified worlds, found using advanced space exploration techniques, possess conditions that could ...

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

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 ...

Other extrasolar planets have been detected by professional and amateur astronomers using something called the transit method. When a planet crosses the face of its star as seen from Earth, the star's ...

Astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets, some in the so-called habitable zone, Does that mean these planets could ...

APRIL 13, 2023 — An international research team led by UTSA associate professor of astrophysics Thayne Currie has made a breakthrough in accelerating the search for new planets. In a paper slated for ...

The star HIP 67522 with a flare erupting toward an orbiting planet, HIP 67522 b, is depicted in this illustration released by ...

WASHINGTON, June 25 (Reuters) - In addition to providing a trove of information about the early universe, the James Webb ...

Scientists have scored a pristine view of a pair of exotic worlds orbiting a star more than 300 light-years away — one with sand-like clouds and another surrounded in space by moon-making material.