A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around another star, they had ...

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

U.S. team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet's atmosphere long considered to be "biosignatures" ...

Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life. A Cambridge ...

In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the ...