A chemical found in the atmosphere around an exoplanet that leads researchers to believe the planet may harbor life is called ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

Researchers are using basalt spectra to study exoplanets and search for water with the James Webb Space Telescope. By ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

The four exoplanets orbit Barnard’s Star so closely that their years last only a few Earth days. They are probably rocky and, ...

WASHINGTON >> Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s star - one of our closest ...

Considered a solitary star for its lack of stellar companions, Barnard's Star is notoriously lonely—signs of any exoplanets ...

they have identified a number of Earth-sized rocky exoplanets, some of which are in the habitable zones of their stars, ...

Without collecting samples from a planet's surface, we don't yet have the technology ... simply cannot accumulate in the atmosphere of an exoplanet in a way that could be identifiable by space ...

What can methyl halides, which are gases that consist of one carbon and three hydrogen atoms while being attached to a ...

Astronomers believe smaller exoplanets may be more varied in composition ... from the star where liquid water can stably exist on the surface of the planet. “When Barnard’s star was young ...