"If the ultimate result of this story is that the public is more circumspect about future claims of life detection, that's ...

Astronomers recently announced a tantalizing discovery: using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers detected potential ...

By Dave Prosper Astronomers have been trying to discover evidence that worlds exist around stars other than our Sun since the ...

In 2020, astronomers detected WD 1856+534 b, a gas giant that orbits a star 81 light-years from Earth. This exoplanet, which ...

"It's like trying to spot a fish by looking for ripples in a pond, rather than trying to see the fish itself." ...

Astronomers published evidence of possible biosignatures on the planet K2-18b earlier this month, but another look at the ...

A Harvard professor questions whether research conducted at the University of Cambridge about life on K2-18b is accurate.

Could a leopard survive on an exoplanet with no oxygen and completely alien conditions? This mind-bending exploration dives into how Earth’s top feline predator might adapt hypothetically to extreme ...

An international study has revealed that super-Earth exoplanets, are significantly more common across the universe than ...

Does alien life exist on an exoplanet? On TikTok, a University of Oxford astrophysicist cast doubt that extraterrestrial life ...

Using the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet), an international team of researchers has discovered that super-Earth ...

Researchers came to the conclusion that super-Earths can exist as far from their host star as our gas giants are from the sun ...