Using the now-retired Kepler space telescope, astronomers have discovered that larger planets grow up in more turbulent homes than smaller worlds.

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

Giant Exoplanets in HR 8799 System Likely Formed Like Jupiter and Saturn The first exoplanet was discovered in the 1990s, but ...

Researchers are using basalt spectra to study exoplanets and search for water with the James Webb Space Telescope. By ...

Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery — and some ...

Scientists have identified a promising new way to detect life on faraway planets, hinging on worlds that look nothing like ...

Furthermore, Madhusudhan and some other astronomers suspect the exoplanet has mild temperatures ... went as far as to suggest the group may have found alien life on the distant planet.

The search for alien life is one of the most captivating scientific quests of our time. With the discovery of thousands of ...

HUNTING for aliens is now a little easier as scientists discover a new sign that gives away life on far-off planets.

Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know ...

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 ...