Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...

A unique characteristic of the candidate planet HD 137010b is its ice-cold temperature.

Worlds that circle stars other than our own are called “exoplanets.” This specific one could be the very first planet like ...

Astronomers have detected an exoplanet candidate around a Sun-like star just 146 light-years away from us.

A new discovery in the search for Earth-like exoplanets has just been published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on ...

The first—and so far only—hint of the potential planet arrived in observations from NASA’s now retired Kepler space telescope ...

Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time, if more detailed analyses verify preliminary observations from the James Webb ...

If confirmed, this exoplanet would be the only known rocky world in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star.

Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...

NASA’s Kepler data reveals HD 137010 b, a cold, Earth-sized candidate. Though freezing cold, it offers valuable insights into planetary formation and life’s potential elsewhere.

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to flesh out our understanding of the exoplanet population. The second was to ...