New research suggests that life could thrive on exoplanets with unique atmospheres, expanding the definition of habitability beyond traditional Earth-like conditions.

HWO will be the first space telescope built to find potentially habitable planets and analyze their atmospheres for signs of ...

Early sci-fi exoplanets were often simple Earth-like worlds, but as science advanced, so did their realism. From the desert planet Arrakis in Dune to the bizarre gas giant moons in Avatar, fictional ...

Recently we learned about the exoplanet Kepler-186f, a potentially earthlike, potentially habitable world only around 500 ...

A team of astronomers have discovered a rather curious exoplanetary system that has two gas giant planets that are messing up each other’s orbit! On of them is 3.8 times the mass of Jupiter and ...

Earth's unusual orbit through hot and cold conditions tests the limits of tolerability for any known lifeforms.

New research points toward an exoplanet that may be capable of supporting life 20 light-years away from Earth.

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

Scientists found an intriguing world in our galaxy.

Abstract One of the most characterizable types of rocky exoplanets for the coming decades are magma worlds, those with extensive lava or magma oceans at their surfaces, due to their hot, extended ...

Named HD 20794 D, the newly discovered exoplanet orbits a star similar to the Sun, and researchers believe it may be able to ...

Astronomers have discovered HD 20794 d, a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a star just 20 light-years away. This ...