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

What planet is most like Earth? Reseachers have identified several exoplanets similar to our planet, but none that are an exact twin. Learn how new technology could help aid in the search.

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time, if more detailed analyses verify preliminary observations from the James Webb ...

There are thousands of known exoplanets, many of which are too dark to directly see, but scientists have made a 3D map by ...

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...

This artist’s impression shows a sunset seen from the super-Earth Gliese 667 Cc. Astronomers have estimated that there are tens of billions of such rocky worlds orbiting faint red dwarf stars in the ...

In a zesty new discovery, scientists have unearthed a strange lemon-shaped exoplanet. It is unlike one we have seen before, ...

How does Mars influence Earth’s climate cycles? This is what a recent study published in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific | Space ...

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