How can astronomers determine if an exoplanet has water based on Earth’s geological composition? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of researchers led ...

Kepler found over 2,600 exoplanets mostly in one a small region of the night sky. It also used data from the Gaia telescope, which is measuring the distance to billions of stars in the galaxy.

It finds exoplanets by detecting a slight dimming ... “Although this planet orbits very close to its star, at a distance about 10 times shorter than that of Mercury around our Sun, the amount ...

From a great distance away, we can't detect all the variables that go into exoplanet habitability. However, we can gain an understanding of the stellar environments in which potentially habitable ...

A new study has identified an exoplanet that is just 3 million years old — around 1,500 times younger than Earth — alongside ...

When astronomers discover new exoplanets lurking deep in space it ... Based on what scientists know about the distance between TOI-677 b and its star, it’s likely to be piping hot.