The confirmed discovery of exoplanets revolutionized our understanding of the universe. Among the thousands of confirmed ...

An international team of researchers has discovered a super-Earth that will allow astronomers to test new hypotheses in the quest for life in the Universe. The habitable zone around the star HD 20794 ...

Astronomers have detected a relatively close exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of its star, where temperatures are just right to support liquid water on the surface. There's still some ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. In January, NASA revealed that astronomers had discovered yet another potentially ...

"If extraterrestrials do exist, scientists have found a promising location for where they could be hiding," said the Daily Mail. Named HD 20794 D, the newly discovered exoplanet orbits a star ...

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 ...

Astronomers should search for technosignatures on planets that are not conducive to life. Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb ...

As of 2020, we know of over 4000 planets in the universe. A handful are in our solar system but the majority are exoplanets: worlds that orbit distant stars. So far, at least, the only one which ...

A starshade is nothing more than a material structure with a hole in the middle. It can be placed in front of a telescope to allow it to focus on its target without being blinded by the light of ...