Astonishingly, we can identify molecules present in the atmospheres of exoplanets.

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

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When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

Worlds upon worlds await us in the cosmos and we’re finding more all the time. Before 1992, we weren’t even completely certain planets existed outside of our solar system. Now, astronomers are finding ...

Planets that once lived only in pulp novels and movie concept art are now turning up in real data. Astronomers are not just ...

Explore how astronomers aim to identify signs of alien life by analysing the atmospheres of distant exoplanets through innovative techniques.

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

Three decades ago, in 1995, humankind discovered the first planet beyond the borders of our solar system. It's called 51 Pegasi b, and it spins around its main-sequence star (meaning not unlike our ...

"There's one we haven't found — a planet just like ours. At least, not yet." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It might sound hard ...