The Chandra X-ray Telescope is investigating the habitability of exoplanets. NASA explains. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...

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What If ranks hostile exoplanets, starting with Gliese 367 b, a tidally locked molten iron world orbiting a red dwarf star.

Some exoplanets absorb almost every ray of visible light that reaches them. Their darkness is revealing unexpected clues about the strange atmospheres surrounding distant worlds.

The Lazuli Space Telescope will be the first private space telescope. It's the brainchild of Eric Schmidt, Google's former ...

A rocky lava planet once thought to be too extreme to have an atmosphere appears to be wrapped in one with a reflective layer ...

The Vidi funding scheme is intended for experienced scientists who have built successful research careers in the years following their PhDs. Together with the Veni and Vici schemes, it forms NWO’s ...

Astronomers selected 27 gas giants for the Lazuli private telescope, including one of the first exoplanets to be directly ...

NMSU astronomer Wladimir Lyra and collaborators found that disks around supermassive black holes may create massive planets, ...

The Pandora SmallSat is a NASA flight project designed to study the atmospheres of exoplanets. Transmission spectroscopy of ...

Scientists detect radio signals from an exoplanet 63 light-years away, revealing a magnetic field far stronger than Earth’s.

The first observations of short-period rocky exoplanets have initiated the era of terrestrial exoplanet characterization ...