When we first began searching for planets around other stars, one of the surprising discoveries was that there are planets orbiting white dwarfs. The first exoplanets we ever discovered were white ...

We live in a golden age for space exploration. Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific ...

Abundance of Earth-like Exoplanets The universe has no shortage of similarities to Earth when it comes to celestial ...

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

New research suggests that life could thrive on exoplanets with unique atmospheres, expanding the definition of habitability ...

HWO will be the first space telescope built to find potentially habitable planets and analyze their atmospheres for signs of ...

After graduating from UVA in 2013 and completing her doctorate in planetary science from the University of Arizona in 2019, ...

The discovery of a potentially habitable 'super-Earth' exoplanet, HD 20794 d, was published in the scientific journal ...

Earth" planet that may have conditions suitable for life, according to the University of Oxford. The exoplanet—a planet ...