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 ...

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

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

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 ...