Planets with suns like Wolf 359 are subject to huge blasts of radiation that raise questions about their long-term ...

A new study by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton highlights the challenges planets ...

Potentially habitable exoplanets are so incredibly common that astronomers have started to consider more unusual situations where life might arise. Perhaps life can be found on the moon of a hot ...

Ultimately, we may need a multi-telescope strategy to truly identify habitable exoplanets, said Carone. The exciting thing about rocky planets is their complexity, which demands highly ...

Planets around other stars need to be prepared for extreme weather conditions, according to a new study from NASA's Chandra X ...

The Chinese Academy of Sciences says that a search for habitable exoplanets could be one of several key Chinese space missions set to launch over the next several years. A fictional spacecraft ...

"Machine-assisted classification of potential biosignatures in earth ... sifts through the atmospheric spectra of potentially habitable exoplanets. While it doesn't identify which ones contain ...

The next frontier will be seeing exoplanets directly, rather than determining their characteristics based on the effect they have on light from a nearby star. The Habitable Worlds Observatory ...

An exoplanet is a planet from a different star ... liquid water on a planet's surface is sometimes referred to as the habitable zone or the Goldilocks zone—because, like Goldilocks' porridge ...

NASA’s $17.5 mn Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) aims to answer humanity’s ultimate question: Are we alone? With ...