Key components of the new spectrograph designed at UNIGE have been successfully tested. They will enable analysis of light from the exoplanet Proxima b.

The hunt is on for terrestrial exoplanets in habitable zones, and some of the most promising candidates were discovered ...

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 ...

Of the seven Earth-sized worlds orbiting the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, one planet in particular has attracted the attention ...

Researchers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have detected the strongest evidence yet for an atmosphere on a rocky ...

Our Sun is about halfway through its life, which means Earth is as well. After a star exhausts its hydrogen nuclear fuel, its ...

The team discovered that the surface might contain liquid water, an essential ingredient for life. Astronomers from the, Irvine have discovered a planet orbiting within the “habitable zone” of its ...

How close to Earth could we find the next Earth-like exoplanet? This is what two papers accepted in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of more than two dozen researchers ...

A giant planet may be orbiting the nearest Sun-like star to Earth, and the discovery is sparking excitement across the astronomy world. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers have detected ...

A "super-Earth" and two other exoplanets have been discovered by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) orbiting a star that's located just 73 light years from our planet. The three ...

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