NASA has announced the discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star that shares several other similarities with ...

Researchers at Cambridge University made a big splash in April last year when they announced that they had strong evidence that life existed on exoplanet K2-18b, orbiting a star 124 lightyears away.

Dr. Leonardos Gkouvelis, researcher at LMU's University Observatory Munich and member of the ORIGINS Excellence Cluster, has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In our solar system, Earth is one of but eight planets – nine, if you really want to count Pluto – and the only one remotely ...

A rocky exoplanet outside the Earth's solar system may have an atmosphere, according to new evidence gathered by NASA researchers. The exoplanet, known as super-Earth TOI-561b, was discovered in 2020, ...

The exploration and study of exoplanets have advanced significantly in recent years, leading scientists to reconsider how these distant worlds are classified. As our understanding deepens, so does the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A super-Earth basks in the glow of its star in this artist's impression. Is the world habitable ...

Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...

FREWSBURG — Recently, a new discovery has been made in the astronomy world in the form of a new exoplanet, Wolf 327b, which orbits the nearby red dwarf star, Wolf 327. The discovery has local ...

Scientists using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) discovered an exoplanet, which NASA defines as “any planet beyond our solar system.” What's False However, the “strange signals” ...