The field of extrasolar planet studies has grown exponentially in the past twenty years. Thanks to missions like Kepler, the…
Aging stars that become red giants increase their luminosity and can wreak havoc on planets that were once in the…
Exoplanet K2-18b is garnering a lot of attention. James Webb Space Telescope spectroscopy shows it has carbon and methane in…
The water that life knows and needs, the water that makes a world habitable, the water that acts as the…
Our planet sits in the Habitable Zone of our Sun, the special place where water can be liquid on the…
In a recent study, a pair of researchers from the Carl Sagan Institute developed a model for finding exoplanets similar…
A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a pair of researchers from the University…
Astronomers are currently searching for signs of life in the "habitable zones" of nearby stars, which is defined as the…
A new study reveals how rogue planets could have "Ocean World" moons that may support life.
Astronomers have found another Earth-sized planet. It's about 31 light-years away and orbits in the habitable zone of a red…