Astronomers have identified a super-Earth orbiting a Sun-like star just 20 light-years away, making it one of the closest and most promising candidates for studying Earth-like atmospheres. The planet, ...

"With its location in a habitable zone and relatively close proximity to Earth, this planet could play a pivotal ... search for biosignatures indicating potential life," Cretignier said.

The Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR) telescope has been imagined as a habitable planet hunter, but it could be so much ...

What can Venus-like exoplanets, also known as exoVenuses, teach us about our own solar system and potentially finding life ...

Planets can be extremely hot when they are born, and new computational experiments show that such planets would have an atmosphere composed of a homogenous mixture of hydrogen and water. As the ...

The search for habitable planets has taken a leap forward with new space telescopes probing exoplanet atmospheres for life.

Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star, one of our closest stellar neighbours.

A study suggests planets in white dwarf habitable zones could sustain life for billions of years through key biological ...

Known to host a potentially habitable planet, the star Proxima Centauri exhibits very active flare activity in optical wavelengths. Similar to flares on our sun, these outbursts release light ...

Astronomers have discovered that sulfur dioxide may help in identifying uninhabitable planets. Large amounts of sulfur dioxide in a planet's atmosphere suggest that the planet is inhospitable.

In the search for life beyond Earth, scientists are looking for potentially habitable planets that are rocky and warm like our own, rather than gas plants. With the new findings, astronomers now ...

WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) - Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - though they concluded that all of ...