A new catalog of potentially habitable exoplanets provides the framework for future observations in the search for alien life ...
The Paranal solar ESPRESSO Telescope (PoET), installed at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) Paranal site in Chile, ...
This artistic illustration shows the TRAPPIST-1 red dwarf star system, home to seven Earth-sized exoplanets, several of which lie within the star’s habitable zone. In the foreground is TRAPPIST-1 b, ...
The search for life beyond our planet is accelerating: a team of astronomers has isolated about forty worlds in our ...
Scientists predict new carbon-hydrogen matter state that conducts electricity directionally under extreme pressures found in ...
Astronomers have discovered an additional 100 new worlds in data collected by NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS, ...
Most exoplanet hunters chase biosignatures the way bird dogs chase the scent of a quail. But in a talk at the European Astrobiology Institute’s recent BEACON 25 conference in Reykjavik, astrophysicist ...
The number 45 matters less than what it represents: the shift from open-ended discovery to structured search, and from chance ...
New exoplanet database visualizes planets in 3D star maps, simulates surface views, and estimates environments, with a ...
The team of astronomers behind the find suggested it could help us better understand planet and moon formation in our solar system and beyond the Milky Way. The team was able to make the first-ever ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar system for the first time, scientists announced Monday. The gas giants are not ...
The largest survey of exoplanets using an observatory atop Mauna Kea on the Big Island confirms a long-predicted relationship ...