The chemical makeup of a planet's host star influences its potential for life. "During the formation of a planet's core, ...

Only 11.4 light-years away, two exoplanets have been detected around a neighboring star. One of them, Gl725Bc, is located in ...

A Harvard scientist has suggested that our Solar System may be far more crowded with interstellar objects than anyone ...

Experts believe that we may now be close to finding extraterrestrial life. A specific point in our sky could hold the answer ...

There's a comforting idea in planetary science. That no matter how strange a distant world looks, its beginnings might still ...

The candidate is coined HD 137010 b. It would orbit a K-type dwarf star approximately 146 light-years from Earth. The evidence comes from a single transit pattern seen in K2 data from 2017: the star ...

The combustible sedimentary rock, better known as coal, was not only crucial to the onset of advanced technology here on Earth, but it should also be key to the development of advanced E.T.s residing ...

Astrobiologists propose that alien civilizations need accessible coal deposits to industrialize exoplanets and become detectable from Earth.

The researchers discovered the candidate world while examining data gathered by the NASA Kepler space telescope in 2017. It ...

The transit method involves using an observatory like Kepler to 'stare' at a star and wait for its light to dim as a ...

A planet that may exist, and may be habitable or may be frozen, has been discovered on an Earth-like orbit around a star 146 ...

Why is it so rare to find exoplanets orbiting two stars, also called circumbinary planets (CBPs)? This is what a recent study ...