When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A super-Earth basks in the glow of its star in this artist's impression. Is the world habitable ...

What role can the relationship between oxygen (O 2) and ozone (O 3) in exoplanet atmospheres have on detecting biosignatures? This is what a study submitted to Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to ...

Kepler-186f is a rocky little world in the Goldilocks zone around its star. It's the fifth planet from its parent star, and yet it orbits at a distance comparable with Mercury's orbit around our sun.

As telescopes have become more powerful, we’ve been finding tons of “exoplanets”—planets orbiting faraway stars. One such planet, known as exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d, has intrigued astronomers looking for ...

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 ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...

What planet is most like Earth? Reseachers have identified several exoplanets similar to our planet, but none that are an ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...