Here’s how it works. Scientists searching for signs of extraterrestrial technology should keep an eye out for city lights on exoplanets, a new study suggests. Technosignatures are manifestations ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Scientists say they may have discovered an exoplanet capable of supporting life.

They flagged potential oceans and air sources on the exoplanet dubbed LHS 1140 b, situated within the constellation Cetus in our night sky. Although the name isn’t so moving, its potential is.

When Star Wars debuted in 1977, astronomers had yet to confirm an exoplanet with the same orbital path as Skywalker’s home world. It would take another 16 years before experts located an actual ...

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has so far spotted over 7,000 planets around other stars, but only a fraction of them have been confirmed to be real detections — the rest ...

No planets cooler than about 35.33 degrees Fahrenheit had ever been detected. An exoplanet discovered in 2020 contains the coldest temperatures ever measured on a planetary body, according to ...

In a paper slated for publication April 14 in Science, Currie reports the first exoplanet jointly discovered through direct imaging and precision astrometry, a new indirect method that identifies a ...

Astronomers in Poland have discovered a nearby exoplanet more than 11 times the mass of Jupiter, comfortably putting it in the pantheon of the most massive known worlds. The object is a cold super ...

Tracking exoplanets via orbital mechanics isn't easy. Plenty of variables could affect how a planet moves around its star, and determining which ones affect any given exoplanet requires a lot of ...