For many years, astronomers have been looking for extraterrestrial life. In doing so, astronomers have narrowed their search ...

In a groundbreaking revelation, recent research indicates that the universe may harbor far more potentially habitable exoplanets than scientists had previously believed. This shift in understanding ...

Published in the peer-reviewed The Astrophysical Journal, the research focuses on tidally locked planets, worlds that always ...

Life beyond Earth may be far more prevalent than scientists have previously considered, according to a groundbreaking study from the Hebrew University. This research suggests that worlds once deemed ...

An international team of astronomers led from regional Queensland finds an exoplanet 150 light-years away with a 50 per cent ...

For years, astronomers have celebrated every hint of an ocean on a distant world as a potential foothold for life. Now a new wave of modeling argues that most of those supposed seas are illusions, and ...

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Morgan Underwood, Rice University (THE CONVERSATION) When astronomers search for ...

In a statement Thursday, astrophysicist Amri Wandel of Hebrew University in Jerusalem said his research challenges the traditional concept of the "habitable zone," the narrow orbital range around a ...

An international team of scientists, including researchers at Penn State, dubbed the exoplanet, named GJ 251 c, a “super-Earth” as data suggest it has a rocky composition similar to Earth and is ...