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

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

Astronomers from the University of Geneva, working with colleagues in Canada and the United States, have captured the ...

Webb telescope discovered a bizarre exoplanet with carbon atmosphere, no hydrogen, orbiting a super-dense spinning star.

What planet is most like Earth? Reseachers have identified several exoplanets similar to our planet, but none that are an ...

Exoplanets come up a lot these days, usually in headlines about distant stars, strange atmospheres, or the possibility of ...

At 93 billion light years across, our observable universe seems full of unfathomable possibility. On Tuesday, the Nobel Prize Committee awarded the physics prize to three researchers whose scientific ...

Earth exoplanets orbiting M-dwarf stars, identifying specific candidates that may have retained detectable atmospheres.

There are hundreds of millions of planets around other stars in our Milky Way galaxy that may be habitable, argues a new research paper. These exoplanets (planets orbiting a star other than our sun) ...

It's estimated there may be trillions of rogue planets wandering through the Milky Way, unbound to any star. Since detecting our first ones, we have been presented with an odd mystery.

The ingredients for life are spread throughout the universe. While Earth is the only known place in the universe with life, detecting life beyond Earth is a major goal of modern astronomy and ...

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