In a significant breakthrough, scientists have identified three Earth-sized exoplanets in a binary star system, potentially ...

Using NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), astronomers have discovered three ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

What if humanity could no longer live on Earth? Perhaps a catastrophic event forced us to find a new home among the stars.

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a main guiding principle. “All life on Earth needs liquid water, no matter ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is slated to be the next Great Observatory for the world. Its main focus has been ...

Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time, if more detailed analyses verify preliminary observations from the James Webb ...

The newly discovered world is called GJ 251c and it is a super-Earth orbiting a red dwarf star less than 20 light-years away.

A new exoplanet candidate has just burst onto the scene, and it may be one of the best alien worlds yet on which to search ...

The Astronomy Department in CAS. Philip Muirhead, a BU astronomy professor, is leading a team that is assembling a list of red dwarf stars for NASA’s latest satellite, TESS, to explore. PHOTO BY ...