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

Many exoplanets are completely uninhabitable, but they can still be useful in the search for more hospitable worlds. Scientists at Lund University have created a 3D map of ultra-hot gas giant WASP ...

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

The exoplanets have orbital periods ranging from 1.5–20 days. All seven objects appear to be similar in size to Earth, with radii ranging from 0.77–1.13 Earth radii. The team was able to determine the ...

Here are 10 exoplanets regarded as the most Earth-like alien worlds discovered to date. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works ...

There may be many Earth-like planets scattered around the universe, a study has suggested, raising the possibility that other habitable worlds are out there—and that life may have evolved on it.

The study of exoplanets has matured considerably in the last 10 years. During this time, the majority of the over 4000 exoplanets currently known were discovered. It was also during this time that ...

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.

Even if we were to find an Earth 2.0, we wouldn't be able to take a picture of it. As an example, the largest optical telescope will soon be the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, with an ...

This article was originally published with the title “ A Cosmic Map of the Exoplanets [Interactive] ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 309 No. 1 (July 2013) doi:10.1038 ...

I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve read that the “first Earth-like exoplanet” has been discovered. With nearly 2000 exoplanets found to date, it is no wonder so many of them will ...

Astronomers from ETH Zurich have predicted that an Earth-like planet could exist orbiting the nearest sun-like stars to Earth, called the α Centauri A/B binary. Though they weren’t looking for ...