In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that ...

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Thousands of exoplanets have been found, but only a few stand out as truly Earth-like. These 16 may be the most promising ...

Researchers have come up with a color-coded key that could prove crucial in detecting signs of life on exoplanet clouds.

Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time, if more detailed analyses verify preliminary observations from the James Webb ...

When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star's ...

Researchers at Cornell University have developed the first-ever reflectance spectra — essentially a color-coded key — of the ...

Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system. In 1995, a gas giant named 51 Pegasi b, which orbits a star similar to Earth's sun, etched its name in history as the first exoplanet ever ...