In our solar system, Earth is one of but eight planets – nine, if you really want to count Pluto – and the only one remotely hospitable to life. And as technology advances, astronomers only expect to ...

Stronger links between researchers who work on Earth’s and other planets’ atmospheres, and between the experimental, ...

Telescope has been suffering from blurry vision. But a team of Australian researchers created an AI algorithm that fixes the ...

The quest for extraterrestrial life has been a captivating journey for scientists, with the vast number of potentially habitable exoplanets in our galaxy sparking hope and curiosity. However, recent ...

What role can the relationship between oxygen (O 2) and ozone (O 3) in exoplanet atmospheres have on detecting biosignatures? This is what a study submitted to Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to ...

Detecting exoplanets at all is difficult—they typically emit much less than 1% of a host star's brightness. Eclipse mapping requires measuring small fractions of that total as a planet circles behind ...

Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system. In 1995, a gas giant named 51 Pegasi b, which orbits a star similar to Earth's sun, etched its name in history as the first exoplanet ever ...