In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

Earth exoplanets orbiting M-dwarf stars, identifying specific candidates that may have retained detectable atmospheres.

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Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time, if more detailed analyses verify preliminary observations from the James Webb ...

Surprised astronomers just discovered a world that blurs the line between planet and stellar remnant, hiding in a system ...

More studies are needed to determine whether TRAPPIST-1e has an atmosphere at all, or the hints of methane are linked to the host star.

SANTA CRUZ — Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed ...

Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies these rocky, or "terrestrial," worlds are far more common than was suspected ...

An ultra-hot rocky exoplanet may be wrapped in a dense atmosphere, defying expectations about what small planets can sustain.