Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far.

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

Investigate whether life could survive on the distant exoplanet Kepler 69c and what it might look like. New disclosures show ...

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

Where will we first find life beyond Earth? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to ...

A global team of astronomers led by a Turkish scientist has discovered four new exoplanets, one of which lies within the ...

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

Exoplanet scientists are eagerly awaiting the discovery of an atmosphere around a terrestrial exoplanet. Not a thin, tenuous, ...

A team of international astronomers, led by Turkish doctoral student Selçuk Yalçınkaya, has unveiled four new exoplanets – ...

Scientists have long assumed that, like rocky planets such as Earth, sub-Neptunes begin with molten magma oceans. Their thick ...

This artist’s concept shows the volatile red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 and its four most closely orbiting planets, all of which ...

Earth," is situated in a relatively close region of the Milky Way Galaxy and resembles Earth in appearance but is many times ...