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

When searching for signs of life on planets outside our Solar System, sometimes nothing is almost as good as something. Even a lack of biosignatures on examined exoplanets can still tell us a lot ...

A study using the Very Large Array radio telescope may have discovered a magnetic field on exoplanet YZ Ceti b. Magnetic ...

An illustration shows what exoplanet K2-18b might look like based on data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. K2-18b is 8.6 times as massive as Earth, orbits the cool dwarf star K2-18 in the ...

Scientists are using powerful telescopes to study exoplanet atmospheres for signs of life. New missions could soon reveal ...

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 ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

A recent study of an exoplanet 120 light-years away revealed it has elements that are believed to be essential in the formation of life. NASA studied K2-18 b, an exoplanet 8.6 times as massive as ...

Deep beneath the surface of distant exoplanets known as super-Earths, oceans of molten rock may be doing something ...

The first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the “habitable zone” — the range of distance from a star where liquid water might pool on the surface of an orbiting planet. What if humanity's search ...

New telescopic technologies are offering insights into whether exoplanets host life, focusing on atmospheric gas analysis.

The findings from Pandora will complement data from the James Webb Space Telescope to give astronomers more insight into ...