How would detecting methane help astronomers identify if exoplanets, or even exomoons, have life as we know it, or even as we ...

Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

HWO will be the first space telescope built to find potentially habitable planets and analyze their atmospheres for signs of ...

An international team of scientists has confirmed the discovery of exoplanet HD 20794 d, which potentially could support life ...

SETI scientists suggest that extraterrestrial civilizations could detect Earth through 'technosignatures' like planetary ...

Scientists have confirmed the discovery of a new planet which is six times as large as the Earth and could host alien life.

Using clever light-detecting techniques, ExTrA searches red dwarf stars for planets that might support life. By studying tiny ...

Scientists have discovered a so-called “super-Earth” planet, potentially capable of supporting life, orbiting a sun -like ...

NASA's upcoming Pandora mission will complement the James Webb Space Telescope by making it easier to detect water in the ...

New research suggests that life could thrive on exoplanets with unique atmospheres, expanding the definition of habitability ...