A new exoplanet model screens rocky worlds by their ability to retain atmospheres over geologic timescales, helping narrow the search for potentially habitable planets beyond Earth.

Three decades of finding new worlds Exoplanet science has moved fast since the first confirmed discoveries in the 1990s.

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A recently discovered "super Earth" located around 25 light-years from our planet is not as massive as previously thought, ...

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It may seem like we are on the verge of discovering alien life. In 2025, a press release stated that we have the “strongest hints yet” of extraterrestrial life on the exoplanet K2-18b. And when ...

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A joint analysis of James Webb Space Telescope observations spanning three instruments has found insufficient evidence for ...

When Nikku Madhusudhan, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Cambridge, addressed his audience during a live-streamed presentation about his possible detection of life on another planet, ...

Seven Earth-like planets orbiting a small star in our Galaxy called Trappist-1, revealed Wednesday, are the most recent – and arguably the most spectacular – in a string of exoplanet discoveries going ...

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