A new discovery in the search for Earth-like exoplanets has just been published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on ...

An international team including Cornell researcher Jake Turner has developed a novel analysis method capable of uncovering ...

Scientists have discovered over 6,000 planets that orbit stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets. More than half of ...

NASA’s Kepler data reveals HD 137010 b, a cold, Earth-sized candidate. Though freezing cold, it offers valuable insights into planetary formation and life’s potential elsewhere.

Worlds upon worlds await us in the cosmos and we’re finding more all the time. Before 1992, we weren’t even completely certain planets existed outside of our solar system. Now, astronomers are finding ...

This artist's impression shows the star TRAPPIST-1 with two planets transiting across it. ExoMiner++, a recently updated open ...

When it comes to the search for extraterrestrial life, research focuses on the so-called habitable zone of stars. This may ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

It was more than 30 years ago when the first ever exoplanet was discovered. Since then, astronomers have discovered more than ...