Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time, ...

Thirty years ago, astronomers didn’t know if planets around other stars were common. Today, NASA says we’ve confirmed 6,000 ...

Scientists got a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons could ...

Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e may contain an atmosphere and liquid water, NASA scientists said. Research into the exoplanet is ...

The exoplanet was discovered during preliminary observations from the James Webb Space Telescope. Experts say they could soon ...

Astronomers have taken a huge leap towards discovering habitable worlds, and the world now eagerly anticipates a rocky planet ...

Astronomers are researching an Earth-like exoplanet that could contain water, according to NASA. The exoplanet, named TRAPPIST-1 e, is being monitored by the James Webb Space Telescope, the most ...

NASA’s exoplanet tally has climbed to 6,000, revealing bizarre and beautiful worlds far stranger than our own.

A new study rules out the existence of global oceans of water on Neptune-like planets such as K2-18b, finding their water ...

With the discovery of ever more exoplanets—over 6,000 now—scientists, of course, want to know if they are habitable for life.

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...