An exoplanet discovered in 2020 contains the coldest temperatures ever measured on a planetary body, according to scientists.

"If the ultimate result of this story is that the public is more circumspect about future claims of life detection, that's ...

What's more, no exoplanets with emission spectra cooler than 275 K (1.85 °C; 35.33 °F) - comparable to Earth - have been ...

A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But ...

A distant flicker of light from a star can reveal more than you might expect. In fact, a brief, subtle brightening in the sky ...

Dr Ian Whittaker from Nottingham Trent University explains the science behind new study which claims to have spotted ...

Astronomers published evidence of possible biosignatures on the planet K2-18b earlier this month, but another look at the ...

Does alien life exist on an exoplanet? On TikTok, a University of Oxford astrophysicist cast doubt that extraterrestrial life ...

Comets that have hit Earth have been a mixed bag. Early in Earth's history, during the solar system's chaotic beginning, they ...

Super-Earths can exist in wider orbits around their parent stars than was previously believed, suggesting these Earth-like ...

A team of scientists has discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought.

Astronomers have discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought. While it can be relatively easy to locate worlds that orbit close to their star, ...