A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

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Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...

A planet that may support alien life has been discovered less than 20 light-years from Earth. The "promising" super-Earth - ...

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

The story of Earth’s atmospheric oxygenation is one of transformation, shaped by both biological and planetary forces. While scientists have long debated the causes behind the stepwise rise of oxygen, ...

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, astronomers have detected more than 7,000 of them in our galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered. At the same time, ...

NASA is set to launch its latest mission, Pandora, in 2025 to study the atmospheres of distant exoplanets. With the James ...

NASA’s Pandora mission nears launch, aiming to analyze exoplanet atmospheres for habitability clues. Using infrared ...