Astronomers have recently detected potential signs of microbial life on the exoplanet K2-18b, an ocean-covered world located ...

Researchers have come up with a color-coded key that could prove crucial in detecting signs of life on exoplanet clouds.

Learn how exoplanets are discovered, what makes planets beyond our solar system unique, and how they drive the ongoing search ...

Researchers have created the first color key of sky-dwelling microbes to help detect signs of alien life in the clouds of ...

Cloud cover is bad for picnics and for viewing stars through a telescope. But an exoplanet with dense or even total cloud ...

A giant exoplanet orbiting a nearby dwarf star has been found in an ideal location for next-generation telescopes to search for potential signs of life. The discovery of a potential “super-Earth” loca ...

Well, now astronomers are revisiting these questions following the discovery of a possible atmosphere around an Earth-sized planet about 40 light years away. The exoplanet is called Trappist-1e and ...

Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system. In 1995, a gas giant named 51 Pegasi b, which orbits a star similar to Earth's sun, etched its name in history as the first exoplanet ever ...

Researchers at Cornell University have developed the first-ever reflectance spectra — essentially a color-coded key — of the ...