New research has unveiled the potential for an atmosphere around an Earth -sized planet located approximately 40 light-years ...

Exoplanet habitability depends on a whole host of factors, with liquid water at the top of the list. It also requires a stable atmosphere, the right chemistry, and possibly even things like plate ...

As missions like Kepler and TESS discovered more rocky exoplanets in recent years, scientists looked forward to the launch of the JWST. The powerful space telescope has the ability to gather infrared ...

If you were able to land on Uranus, which you can’t because it is made of gas, you would be greeted with something that ...

"Finding a temperate planet in such a compact system makes this discovery particularly exciting." A fifth planet has been detected within the habitable zone of a neighboring star, where conditions ...

An exoplanet has been discovered orbiting Barnard's star by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Barnard's stars is the closest single star to Earth. Credit: ESO ...