The solar gravitation lens (SGL) has much potential as a telescope. This point in space, located about 650 AU away from the ...

Here's everything to know about the discovery, the intriguing exoplanet itself and the ongoing search for life in the cosmos. A strong possibility exists that extraterrestrial life can be found on ...

Scientists have announced the detection of dimethyl sulfide—a chemical that, on Earth, is only produced by living organisms—in the atmosphere of an exoplanet called K2-18b. This is the second ...

Neptune, TOI-270 d provides a critical opportunity to understand atmospheric composition and planetary evolution in a ...

For this reason, not much consideration has been given to these stars’ ability to host habitable exoplanets,” Aomawa Shields, a professor of physics and astronomy at U.C. Irvine, explained in ...

Since astronomers started discovering extrasolar planets, or "exoplanets," in the mid-1990s, worlds orbiting other stars have demonstrated that, compared to our somewhat mundane solar system ...

This illustration shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs –– objects bigger than gas-giant planets but too small to be proper stars. ESO/M. Kornmesser Astronomers have discovered a ...

The presence of exoplanets in the star system was first ... with dramatic temperature swings; at its farthest point, the planet gets chilly enough for water to freeze. In fact, there's a chance ...

TOI-3493 b, a sub-Neptune exoplanet detected by TESS, is over three times Earth's radius and about nine times its mass, with a bulk density of 1.47 g/cm 3. It orbits a G-type star every 8.16 days ...

Scientists have found further evidence of possible biosignature gases on the nearby exoplanet K2-18b, strengthening the case that it could support alien life. In 2023, researchers using NASA's ...

In a first, a pair of unusual stars has been revealed to have an equally unusual companion – an exoplanet that orbits them perpendicularly. Astronomers may think they know what is normal for ...