Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

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Carbon dioxide detected in the atmosphere of exoplanets. The post Carbon Dioxide in Distant Exoplanets Discovered By ...

The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets with twice the diameter of Earth.

The national traveling exhibition explores space and astronomy, covering topics such as the search for habitable worlds.

The confirmed discovery of exoplanets revolutionized our understanding of the universe. Among the thousands of confirmed exoplanets, HD 20794 d in particular, recently attracted attention for a unique ...

"As the large and bright discs are the easiest to observe, our previous view of the birth site of planets was biased." ...

What can Venus-like exoplanets, also known as exoVenuses, teach us about our own solar system and potentially finding life ...

So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...

An international team, including University of Geneva researchers, discovered a super-Earth named TOI-512 b orbiting a star ...