In addition to the exoplanet’s polar orbit, the brown dwarf pair itself is extraordinarily rare. They form an eclipsing ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers are working to confirm potential evidence of life on a distant exoplanet dubbed K2-18b.

Astronomers have discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought. While it can be relatively easy to locate worlds that orbit close to their star, ...

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The astronomers spotted the planet using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an MIT-led mission that ...

"Either our models are in error, or the DMS/DMDS might not exist," Schwieterman told Space.com. "Finding life outside the ...

While the discovery made by JWST is undeniably a “revolutionary moment” for us, it is not an Archimedes-type “eureka” moment.

A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But ...

Astronomers have made a detection suggesting biosignatures, or signs of biological activity, on an exoplanet located 124 ...

Astronomers have detected molecules on exoplanet K2-18b that may have been produced by simple organisms, claiming it's the ...

While cautious about the findings, astronomers detected traces of a chemical that, on Earth, is produced by phytoplankton.