The supposed "strange signals" were not mysterious at all, but commonly observed transit signals, according to NASA.

Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four ...

How can magnetic fields help determine the habitability of exoplanets? This is what a recent study published in Nature ...

Researchers at Cambridge University made a big splash in April last year when they announced that they had strong evidence ...

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

A huge "super-Earth" with an extreme climate that results in it being habitable for only part of its orbit has been discovered orbiting a star 2,472 light years away. And the most remarkable thing is, ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

A recent study of an exoplanet 120 light-years away revealed it has elements that are believed to be essential in the formation of life. NASA studied K2-18 b, an exoplanet 8.6 times as massive as ...

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 Webb ...

Could a recently discovered "super-Earth" have the potential temperature and conditions to sustain life? The new exoplanet is situated "fairly close to us" -- only 137 light-years away -- and orbits ...

Deep beneath the surface of distant exoplanets known as super-Earths, oceans of molten rock may be doing something ...