Using the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet), an international team of researchers has discovered that super-Earth ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

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

For centuries, planets beyond our solar system—called exoplanets—existed only in ... The transit method, another popular technique, looks for periodic dips in a star's brightness as an ...

For this reason, not much consideration has been given to these stars’ ability to host habitable exoplanets,” Aomawa Shields, a professor of physics and astronomy at U.C. Irvine, explained in ...

What do you think of when it comes to extraterrestrial life? Most popular sci-fi books and TV shows suggest humanoid beings ...