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The planet is one of the best worlds for follow-up studies to determine whether it could be habitable or not.

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 ...

Could a recently discovered "super-Earth" have the potential temperature and conditions to sustain life? The new exoplanet is situated "fairly close to us" -- only 137 light-years away -- and orbits ...

Of the 6,000 exoplanets known, a very thin slice of them are in the geometry required to perform a deceitfully simple experiment: observe a planet cross its star and read the atmospheric chemistry ...

Astrobiologists propose that alien civilizations need accessible coal deposits to industrialize exoplanets and become detectable from Earth.

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 ...

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...

A rocky exoplanet outside the Earth's solar system may have an atmosphere, according to new evidence gathered by NASA researchers. The exoplanet, known as super-Earth TOI-561b, was discovered in 2020, ...

"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet." ...