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 James Webb telescope's search for habitable exoplanets is getting a big boost from its new star-watching companion, ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

Data from the Kepler project has confirmed a new world that fulfills the telescope's goal of locating Earth-sized planets ...

NASA has selected L3Harrist o develop advanced optics and mirror systems for the Habitable Worlds Observatory, a flagship space telescope searching for life beyond Earth.

Among the most prevalent stars in our galaxy are red dwarfs, M-dwarf stars that are smaller and cooler than our Sun. The majority of them possess at least one rocky planet of comparable size ...

So far, humanity has yet to find its first "exomoon"—a moon orbiting a planet outside of the solar system. But that hasn't ...

The planets have been nicknamed Earth's seven sisters. — -- An international team of astronomers has discovered seven potentially habitable exoplanets — or planets outside our solar system — that ...

One of the main questions in exoplanet science concerns M dwarfs (red dwarfs) and the habitability of exoplanets that orbit ...

A new survey maps nearby K-type stars and shows why these long-lived, stable stars are important targets in the search for ...

(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 ...

WASHINGTON – For the first time astronomers have discovered a planet outside our solar system that is potentially habitable, with Earth-like temperatures, a find researchers described Tuesday as a big ...