At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to flesh out our understanding of the exoplanet population. The second was to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some exoplanets, like the one shown in this illustration, may have atmospheres that could make them potentially suitable for life.

Scientists may need to broaden their horizons in their search for alien life.

What if extraterrestrial life is hiding in places we had completely ruled out? For decades, astronomers have focused their ...

Published in the peer-reviewed The Astrophysical Journal, the research focuses on tidally locked planets, worlds that always ...

The planets have been nicknamed Earth's seven sisters. — -- An international team of astronomers has discovered seven potentially habitable exoplanets — or planets outside our solar system — that ...

For many years, astronomers have been looking for extraterrestrial life. In doing so, astronomers have narrowed their search ...

It's remarkably similar to Earth.

"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet." ...

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...

Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Morgan Underwood, Rice University (THE CONVERSATION) When astronomers search for ...