How common are Earth-like exoplanets—also called exo-Earths—and which exoplanetary systems should we target to find them? This is what a study hopes to address as a team of researchers ...

Astronomers have discovered a small exoplanet orbiting Barnard’s star, the closest single star to our sun. This newly discovered exoplanet designated as Barnard b [2] has at least half the mass ...

Here are some of the strangest exoplanets that scientists have discovered so far. Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery ...

How do the characteristics of Neptune-like exoplanets, also known as exo-Neptunes, differ from each other? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy and Astrophysics hopes to address as an ...

For centuries, planets beyond our solar system—called exoplanets—existed only in theory and science fiction. It seemed nearly impossible to detect planets light-years away, since the ...

Venus is often described as a hellscape. The surface temperature breaches the melting point of lead, and though its ...

The most likely way we will discover life on a distant exoplanet is by discovering a biosignature. This can be done by ...

These exoplanets (planets orbiting a star other than our sun) orbit close to red dwarf stars that are smaller and cooler than the sun, and which make up over 75% of the 200 billion stars in the ...

Stars fall into seven lettered categories according to their surface temperature. They also differ in other factors including ...

It reveals patterns and regions of exoplanets with similar properties ... Castro-González et al, Mapping the exo-Neptunian landscape: A ridge between the desert and savanna, Astronomy ...

Are there planets beyond Earth where humans can live? The answer is maybe, according to physicists examining F-type star systems.