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

The transit method involves using an observatory like Kepler to 'stare' at a star and wait for its light to dim as a ...

Thousands of exoplanets are known. Only a handful matter. This video explains what separates truly habitable worlds from the ...

The Pandora satellite provides career training grounds while observing exoplanets.

A planet that may exist, and may be habitable or may be frozen, has been discovered on an Earth-like orbit around a star 146 ...

One such mystery, described in a recent paper in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, concerns circumbinary exoplanets—or rather, the shortage thereof—in the now 6,000+ exoplanets confirmed to date.

January brought a wide range of thoughtful science conversations featuring researchers from the SETI Institute, spanning everything from hands-on planetary defense with citizen scientists to careful ...

Why is it so rare to find exoplanets orbiting two stars, also called circumbinary planets (CBPs)? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysica | Space ...

NASA has announced the discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star that shares several other similarities with ...

A newly identified Earth-sized exoplanet with a year-long orbit may lie near its star’s habitable zone, but extreme cold could limit its chances of hosting liquid water.

In theory, hundreds of circumbinary planets should have been detected by missions such as NASA’s Kepler and TESS space ...

We are getting close to being able to see signs of life on different worlds, says exoplanet pioneer Didier Queloz. Quantum mechanics is mind-blowing at the best of times. Sean Carroll explores perhaps ...