"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

Astronomers have made a detection suggesting biosignatures, or signs of biological activity, on an exoplanet located 124 ...

Observations by the James Webb space telescope find possible biological activity on a giant planet 124 light-years from Earth ...

Scientists announce detection of compounds on an extrasolar planet that on Earth only produce living organisms, but other ...

U.S. team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet's atmosphere long considered to be "biosignatures" ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

An exoplanet—also called an extrasolar planet—is a planet outside a solar system that orbits another star. With direct imaging, astronomers can see an exoplanet’s light in a telescope and study its ...

A team from the University of Bern and the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS has developed a ...

To reach this conclusion, the team studied the orbits of thousands of extrasolar planets, or "exoplanets." The team, consisting of researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA ...