Interest in steam world exoplanets really heated up in October 2024 when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovered the ...

The new findings on exoplanet TRAPPIST-1d, published in The Astrophysical Journal on Wednesday, mirror similar results for ...

The black hole, spotted 5 billion light-years away in the Cosmic Horseshoe, could be the most massive ever found.

NASA exoplanet-hunter TESS has found a temperate, Earth-size world in the habitable zone of its red dwarf star. This planet could make waves in the search for life.

The search for life beyond Earth is full of surprises, and the James Webb Space Telescope just found new information.

The exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d intrigues astronomers looking for possibly habitable worlds beyond our solar system because it is ...

The potential for more Earth-size planets in our Milky Way galaxy is mind-boggling. "There are 200 billion stars in our galaxy," said co-author Emmanuel Jehin of the University of Liege.

It is estimated that 60% to 70% of the stars in our galaxy are red dwarfs like Gliese 12, and of the 30 stars closest to Earth, at least 20 are red dwarfs.

Of these, 68 are approximately Earth-size; 288 are super-Earth-size; 662 are Neptune-size; 165 are the size of Jupiter and 19 are larger than Jupiter. Of the 54 new planet candidates found in the ...

The potential for more Earth-size planets in our Milky Way galaxy is mind-boggling. "There are 200 billion stars in our galaxy," said co-author Emmanuel Jehin of the University of Liege.