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

The supposed "strange signals" were not mysterious at all, but commonly observed transit signals, according to NASA.

Although astronomers have directly imaged a few dozen gas giants on the scale of Jupiter, Earth-sized planets are too small and dim to be directly imaged. That's not to say there's a shortage of Earth ...

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 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

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

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (NASA/CNN NEWSOURCE/WKRC) - Astronomers have announced a groundbreaking discovery that could change our understanding of the universe. A planet, similar in size to Earth, has been ...

How can magnetic fields help determine the habitability of exoplanets? This is what a recent study published in Nature ...

That would make it thousands of times more massive than any moon orbiting a solar system plane  — so massive it could make ...

It may be made from a former star ...