Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

Scientists are using powerful telescopes to study exoplanet atmospheres for signs of life. New missions could soon reveal ...

An illustration shows what exoplanet K2-18b might look like based on data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. K2-18b is 8.6 times as massive as Earth, orbits the cool dwarf star K2-18 in the ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

The first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the “habitable zone” — the range of distance from a star where liquid water might pool on the surface of an orbiting planet. What if humanity's search ...

New telescopic technologies are offering insights into whether exoplanets host life, focusing on atmospheric gas analysis.

Astronomers have recently detected potential signs of microbial life on the exoplanet K2-18b, an ocean-covered world located 120 light years from Earth. This discovery suggests that the planet could ...

Combining two kinds of quantum computing devices could be just the trick for taking better images of faint, faraway ...

When searching for signs of life on planets outside our Solar System, sometimes nothing is almost as good as something. Even a lack of biosignatures on examined exoplanets can still tell us a lot ...

The planets have been nicknamed Earth's seven sisters. — -- An international team of astronomers has discovered seven potentially habitable exoplanets — or planets outside our solar system — that ...

The findings from Pandora will complement data from the James Webb Space Telescope to give astronomers more insight into ...

The exoplanet LHS 3844b (left) is 1.3 times the mass of Earth and orbits the star LHS 3844 (right). Discovered in 2018 by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Satellite Survey, LHS 3844b is located 48.6 ...