The James Webb Space Telescope has just achieved a historic first by capturing direct images of carbon dioxide in the ...

K2-360 is a newly found planetary system with a super-dense planet, likely the core of a former larger world, shaped by dynamic interactions with its companion. An international team of researchers ...

Scientists have taken a big step forward in the search for another Earth. A team from the University of Bern and the Swiss ...

Combining with one other previously confirmed planet, one of our closest stellar neighbors now has a family of four.

"L 98-59 c could be the first planet smaller than 2 Earth radii with a definitively detected atmosphere," a team of ...

A team from the University of Bern and the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS has developed a ...

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A trip to planets outside our solar system could tell scientists a lot — even if no extraterrestrial life is found ...

In the scientific exploration of the universe, the absence of a sought-after phenomenon can paradoxically become a valuable ...

Even if no life is found on other planets, smart survey design and careful statistics can still reveal how rare, or common, ...

Learn why finding no obvious biosignatures on 40 to 80 exoplanets doesn’t mean that life doesn’t exist outside Earth. It just ...

"What if extraterrestrial life is not found?" international researchers ask, seeking to understand how negative results could ...