K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope confirmed that the planet K2-18b has traces of dimethyl sulfide, a potential ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

While the Webb Telescope watched exoplanet K2‑18b glide across its parent star, sulfur‑bearing gases appeared in the planet’s ...

Explore the groundbreaking discovery of extraterrestrial life signs on exoplanet K2-18 b with chemical evidence from NASA.

WASHINGTON, April 16 (Reuters) - In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have ...

Researchers have developed a new coronagraph — an optical device that blocks out light from a bright source — that could make ...

A report about exoplanet K2-18b published on April 17 states that astronomers are one step closer to answering whether humans ...

This software package is designed to "deblend" light curves in Kepler's data. Light curves are critical to exoplanet hunting as they show how the brightness of an object changes over time.

A new study modeled the chemistry of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet between Earth and Neptune in size, finding evidence that it could be a giant rocky planet shrouded in a thick, hot atmosphere. TOI-270 d is ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet that orbits at a 90-degree angle around a rare pair of strange stars—a real-life 'twist' ...

With direct imaging, astronomers can see an exoplanet’s light in a telescope and study its atmosphere. However, only about 20 have been directly imaged over the past 15 years. “This is the first of ...