A chemical found in the atmosphere around an exoplanet that leads researchers to believe the planet may harbor life is called ...

Astronomers have detected four small planets orbiting Barnard’s Star, one of the closest stars to Earth, at just six ...

Scientists are rethinking how to detect alien life by focusing on planets vastly different from Earth. Instead of searching ...

UC Riverside scientists identify a new way to detect life in outer space with currently existing telescopes. The method ...

Scientists discovered that methyl halides, a gas produced by microbes, could be a biosignature for life on distant planets.

Astronomers have been looking for exoplanets orbiting Barnard's Star, the nearest solitary star to Earth at just 5.96 ...

Astronomers have discovered two exoplanets around TOI-1453, a star about 250 light years away. These two exoplanets, a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune, are common in the galaxy, yet are absent from our ...

Israeli astronomers report the detection of a new Jupiter-like exoplanet using the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS). The newfound alien world orbits a nearby M-dwarf star ...

Scientists using JWST have uncovered striking cloud formations and extreme heat contrasts on LTT 9779 b, a rare ultra-hot ...

Scientists say that the new 3D understanding of the planet represents a major breakthrough for our understanding of the atmosphere and weather of alien worlds. But it also challenges our current ...