The image of Luke Skywalker gazing wistfully across the desert of Tatooine while a pair of “suns” set on the horizon is among ...

"Given everything we know about this planet, a Hycean world with an ocean that is teeming with life is the scenario that best ...

In a first, a pair of unusual stars has been revealed to have an equally unusual companion – an exoplanet that orbits them perpendicularly. Astronomers may think they know what is normal for ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A new sub-Neptune exoplanet, GI 410 b, has been discovered orbiting the nearby star GI 410 using the radial velocity method. This planet has a minimum mass of 8. ...

Researchers have developed a new coronagraph that could make it possible to see distant exoplanets obscured by light from their parent stars. Researchers have developed a new coronagraph -- an ...

Previous data gathered by NASA's exoplanet hunter TESS (short for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) suggest the exoplanet's host star, L 98-59, is more active than previously thought and ...

A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But not everyone agrees that it signals life.

Scientists have found further evidence of possible biosignature gases on the nearby exoplanet K2-18b, strengthening the case that it could support alien life. Here on Earth, DMS is produced ...

Astronomers claim to have discovered another exoplanet that orbits two suns, like the fictional planet of Tatooine in Star Wars. It's the 17th Tatooine-like planet discovered, but it orbits its ...

The discovery was made on a massive exoplanet known as K2-18b that is much larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune. For years, the exoplanet orbiting more than 120 light-years away has ...

Scientists discover life-sustaining molecules in exoplanet K2-18b’s atmosphere – Located 124 light-years away, using NASA’s JWST Scientists have detected molecules associated with biological ...