Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have investigated a nearby sub-Earth exoplanet known as Gliese 367 b. The obtained results indicate that this alien world is dark, hot and ...

Gliese 710 is on course to pass near the Solar System in the distant future. When it approaches the Oort Cloud, its gravity ...

New data from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia mission has given astronomers unprecedented accuracy in predicting that Gliese 710, a K-spectral type star a little more than half the size of our ...

A rocky alien planet called Gliese 581d may be the first known world beyond Earth capable of supporting life as we know it, a new study suggests. Astronomers performing a new atmospheric-modeling ...

We could be one step closer to becoming a multi-planetary species. Scientists have discovered another planet that has the potential to support human life, per a study outlined in Monthly Notices of ...

Discovered earlier this month by the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) at the La Silla Observatory in Chile, and confirmed last Thursday, the exoplanet Gliese 163 c is now ranked ...

In April, a European team of astronomers announced the discovery of two possibly habitable Earth-like planets. Two new detailed studies of this system confirm that one of the planets might indeed be ...

Are there Earth-like exoplanets in the Milky Way Galaxy? This is what a study published today in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society hopes to address as a team of international ...

More than 10 years after the discovery of the first extrasolar planet, astronomers have now discovered more than 250 of these planets. Until a few years ago, most of the newly discovered exoplanets ...