The CARMENESE Consortium just released the first collection of data, which revealed 59 new exoplanets and doubled the number of…
Astronomers have found another Earth-sized planet. It's about 31 light-years away and orbits in the habitable zone of a red…
The differences between Earth and Venus are obvious to us. One is radiant with life and adorned with glittering seas,…
Detecting exoplanets was frontier science not long ago. But now we've found over 5,000 of them, and we expect to…
For planet-hunters, finding an Earth-sized exoplanet must be special. NASA estimates there are about 100 billion planets in the Milky…
In a recent study published in Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, a team of researchers from the University of Texas at…
We've found thousands of exoplanets in the last couple of decades. We've discovered exoplanets unlike anything in our own Solar…
In a new study, a team of Earth scientists shows how scientists could look for signs of a carbon-silicate cycle…
When we directly observe distant worlds, some exoplanets might appear Earth-like, even when they are not.
In the past decade, the discovery of extrasolar planets has accelerated immensely. To date, 4,424 exoplanets have been confirmed in…