Fast-forward to today: we’ve gone from one lonely planet to a catalog of thousands. The pace is accelerating. In 2015, NASA’s ...

In the past three decades astronomers have discovered more than 6000 exoplanets – planets that orbit stars other than the Sun ...

Scientists have found thousands of planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, throughout the galaxy. This artist’s ...

“These microbes, if we found them, would be anaerobic,” Schwieterman explains in the release, meaning the microscopic ...

Hot, small and old—exoplanet TOI-561 b is just about the worst place to look for alien air. Scientists using JWST found it ...

This means that, unlike some exoplanets around cooler red dwarfs ... Photochemistry, volcanic gases, or even weird surface-atmospheric chemistry might, theoretically, yield identical signatures. The ...

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