Want to be a top notch candidate for hosting alien life? Then there's a few key requirements you should be aware of: Ideally, ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet beyond the solar system that orbits its twin parent stars closer than any ever seen ...

This is the strongest evidence yet of a rocky planet beyond our solar system with an atmosphere. Astronomers using the James ...

Fresh JWST data and new models challenge methane hints on TRAPPIST-1e, showing the gas would be rare, unstable, and difficult ...

There is a new method to detect and map spots on stars by "using observations from NASA missions of orbiting planets." ...

An "extra exceptional" Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns, has been discovered. Astronomers say the "huge" new world ...

Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have detected the strongest evidence yet for an atmosphere on a rocky ...

The hunt is on for terrestrial exoplanets in habitable zones, and some of the most promising candidates were discovered ...

To test this idea, the new study looks at an exoplanet known as VHS 1256b. It has a mass of around 20 Jupiters and is one of ...

A team of astronomers from New Mexico State University and Northwestern University has discovered a new exoplanet by ...

Thanks to some old data and New Mexico researchers, we know of one more exoplanet in the Milky Way. A group of scientists at ...

Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave discuss an Earth-sized exoplanet, how ant colonies deal with disease and a possible link between volcanoes and the Black Death.