The exploration and study of exoplanets have advanced significantly in recent years, leading scientists to reconsider how ...

Astronomers discover 7 potentially habitable exoplanets orbiting nearby dwarf star The planets have been nicknamed Earth's seven sisters.

Interest in steam world exoplanets really heated up in October 2024 when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovered the ...

Fresh results from near-infrared instruments foretell a bright future for finding life elsewhere in the Milky Way ...

Exoplanet habitability depends on a whole host of factors, with liquid water at the top of the list. It also requires a ...

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been used to discover Earth-size planet TOI 700 e. It is "orbiting ...

Now a game-changing instrument called NIRPS (Near-Infrared Planet Searcher) is leading the search for the most tantalizing ...

If Earth needs to borrow a cup of sugar, it's comforting to know that there may be a convenient, possibly habitable, world ...

There may be a habitable world at the Sun's closest solar twin. In the complex space inhabited by the Alpha Centauri triple ...

Astronomers using JWST have detected a giant exoplanet in the habitable zone of Alpha Centauri A, our nearest Sun-like star.

The new super-Earth exoplanet is situated "close to us" -- only 137 light-years away -- and orbits within a "habitable zone," according to NASA.