Our circumstances here on the wondrous, life-supporting Earth can give us a false understanding of what the universe is really like. But our blue-skied, temperate planet is the extreme exception when ...

The newfound exoplanet, called Kepler-139f, is a gigantic world roughly twice the mass of Neptune and 35 times the mass of ...

Sometimes, in order to support an idea, you first have to discredit alternative, competing ideas that could take resources ...

In new research, University of California, Irvine astronomers describe how more than 200 known exoplanets are likely much ...

By harnessing the power of AI, the search for Earth-like exoplanets is accelerating at an unprecedented rate, bringing the dream of finding extraterrestrial life closer to reality than ever before.

3D map of exoplanet atmosphere shows wacky climate "This planet’s atmosphere behaves in ways that challenge our understanding of how weather works." ...

Astronomers have discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought. While it can be relatively easy to locate worlds that orbit close to their star ...

Jupiter-like planets have their merits, but the ultimate goal of exoplanet hunters naturally centers on securing images of Earth-like planets — those with about one-tenth Jupiter’s diameter ...

With 10 times the mass of our planet, and spending only part of its orbit in the habitable zone, Kepler-725c is very different to Earth.

A new study led by UCLA scientists on how water forms on young exoplanets with hydrogen atmospheres and molten oceans of magma suggests that Earth-like planets may not be as uncommon as once ...

Of particular interest is the Habitable Exoplanet Observatory, a proposed telescope with the specific goal of identifying and directly imaging Earth-like exoplanets.

A Team partly from th eMax Planck Institute for Astronomy found an Earth-like exoplanet. The rocky planet called Wolf 1069 b located in the habitable zone around a red dwarf star may be habitable.