This week, researchers shared a finding from an intriguing exoplanet that might represent the next step toward discovering whether life is possible on another world. Nikku Madhusudhan, professor ...

NASA's Webb telescope has discovered an exoplanet, which is any planet that is outside of our solar system, for the first time, the agency announced Wednesday. The planet, called LHS 475 b ...

"If the ultimate result of this story is that the public is more circumspect about future claims of life detection, that's not a terrible thing." Recently, a team of University of Cambridge-led ...

(Related: "Life on Exoplanets? Think About Habitat Variety.") The blue color of HD 189733b is consistent with the hypothesis that very small drops of silicates in the planet's atmosphere are ...

It is one of thousands of exoplanets spotted by Kepler, a space telescope that was launched in 2009 and is designed for the task. In 2019 observations by the Hubble Space Telescope suggested the ...