An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star.

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

The 'hot Neptune' planet, named LTT 9779b, is so scorching that its atmosphere should have evaporated, according to ...

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

Abundance of Earth-like Exoplanets The universe has no shortage of similarities to Earth when it comes to celestial ...

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

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more than 7000 of them in our Galaxy. But there are ...

Worlds with liquid water could have formed just 200 million years after the big bang from the remains of the earliest ...

Astronomers who identified HD 20794 d say its proximity to its host star and orbital pattern suggest it could hold water.

An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 have been found ...

The Extremely Large Telescope, under construction in Chile, aims to explore exoplanets for potential life and examine the ...

South Africa has taken one giant leap into exoplanet discovery capabilities and astronomical research with the launch of the ...