Astronomers using the Hubble space telescope have discovered water in the atmosphere of an exoplanet in its star's habitable zone.…
A lot of the headlines and discussion around the habitability of exoplanets is focused on their proximity to their star…
We've finally got our first optical look at an exoplanet and its atmosphere, and boy is it a strange place.…
According to a new study by a pair of researchers, planets covered in deep oceans (aka. "water worlds") may be…
According to a new study by an international team of scientists, the gas giant KELT-9b is so hot that its…
A new study by a team of NASA scientists has shown how searching for biosignatures known as atmospheric beacons could…
Determining weather patterns in exoplanet atmospheres – hundreds to thousands of light years away – is extremely difficult. However, given…
[/caption] Exoplanet discoveries are happening at a frenetic pace, and some of the latest newly discovered worlds are sometimes described…
[/caption] At first glance, GJ 1214b is just another of the growing number of the super-Earth class of exoplanets. Discovered…
[/caption] While planets orbiting twin stars are a staple of science fiction, another is having humans live on planets orbiting…