At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

The James Webb telescope's search for habitable exoplanets is getting a big boost from its new star-watching companion, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

By tracking active stars, NASA's Pandora will join the search for water and other key signs in exoplanet atmospheres.

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The planets have been nicknamed Earth's seven sisters. — -- An international team of astronomers has discovered seven potentially habitable exoplanets — or planets outside our solar system — that ...

One of the main questions in exoplanet science concerns M dwarfs (red dwarfs) and the habitability of exoplanets that orbit ...

(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 ...

If we’ll ever find life outside our solar system, it will not be an instant discovery. Save for the slim possibility of an intelligent civilization beaming a message in our direction, evidence for ...

The hunt for worlds beyond our solar system has shifted from counting planets to confronting extremes that strain basic ...

Irvine, Calif., Oct. 23, 2025 — University of California, Irvine astronomers have identified an exoplanet located in a star’s habitable zone, where surface conditions might exist that can support the ...