Finding alien life won’t be as dramatic as a flying saucer landing on the White House lawn – it’ll be NASA scientists holding ...

Researchers suggest that certain gases detected in the atmospheres of exoplanets could be key indicators in the search for ...

In a new Astrophysical Journal Letters paper, researchers from the University of California, Riverside, describe these gases, which could be detected in the atmospheres of exoplanets—planets ... than ...

Combination of Cosmic Processes Shapes the Size and Location of Sub-Neptunes Mar. 17, 2025 — A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets ...

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

Scientists have just discovered four small, rocky exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star, the nearest single star to our solar system after the Alpha Centauri system, NASA announced. Located only six ...

What definitely isn’t a close match is the incredible surface temperatures on the exoplanet ... best chance yet to study the atmosphere of an alien world. The holy grail of astronomy would ...

Classified as a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune, these two new celestial bodies are among the most common types of exoplanets found in the Milky Way galaxy, yet are absent from our own solar system.

"any aliens lurking there". An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 have been found in the Milky Way since the first confirmed ...

The Extremely Large Telescope will revolutionize our view of the cosmos when it sees first light in Chile in 2028. In fact, ...

Researchers are using basalt spectra to study exoplanets and search for water with the James Webb Space Telescope. By studying chemical processes in the Earth's hot mantle, Cornell scientists are ...