An artist’s rendering of planet K2-18b. Credit: A. Smith, N. Madhusudhan (University of Cambridge) FLORA LICHTMAN: This is Science Friday. I’m Flora Lichtman. Later in the hour, using science to ...

The hunt for worlds beyond our solar system has shifted from counting planets to confronting extremes that strain basic ...

Scientists are using powerful telescopes to study exoplanet atmospheres for signs of life. New missions could soon reveal ...

Exoplanets come up a lot these days, usually in headlines about distant stars, strange atmospheres, or the possibility of ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

A recent study of an exoplanet 120 light-years away revealed it has elements that are believed to be essential in the formation of life. NASA studied K2-18 b, an exoplanet 8.6 times as massive as ...

The first sign of possible extraterrestrials detected in the cosmos didn't come in the form of little green aliens flying around in saucer-shaped spacecraft. In fact, the life that could be – emphasis ...

Astronomers find possible signs of alien life on massive, distance planet K2-18b. The exoplanet K2-18b is 8 times bigger than planet Earth. The claim about alien life involved data from NASA's James ...

An illustration shows what exoplanet K2-18b might look like based on data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. K2-18b is 8.6 times as massive as Earth, orbits the cool dwarf star K2-18 in the ...

It's hard to remember now, but there was a long period of time in which scientists weren't sure how many planets might actually exist throughout the galaxy, much less how likely it might be to find a ...

The exoplanet LHS 3844b (left) is 1.3 times the mass of Earth and orbits the star LHS 3844 (right). Discovered in 2018 by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Satellite Survey, LHS 3844b is located 48.6 ...