In a new study, a team of 50 astronomers from around the world have confirmed the existence of exoplanet Wolf 1069 b, which orbits a red dwarf star, Wolf 1069, only 31 light-years ...

A newly discovered exoplanet could be worth searching for signs of life. Analyses by a team led by astronomer Diana Kossakowski of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy describe a planet that orbits ...

However, according to existing knowledge, it is quite possible that Wolf 1069 b has formed an atmosphere. Under this ...

But that estimate assumes Wolf 1069b has an Earth-like atmosphere, and so far astronomers don’t have enough information about ...

Just 31 light-years away, astronomers have identified an incredibly rare Earth-sized world orbiting at a distance from its ...

Hustak (STScI) The big aim, though, is for Webb to detect exoplanet atmospheres. The researchers were able to gather some data on the newly detected planet’s atmosphere and to rule out some ...

The atmosphere of an exoplanet about 900 light years from Earth is so hot that its surface metals are vaporizing and escaping the planet’s gravitational pull. As if that wasn’t enough ...

When a planet gets that close to its host star, it can have its atmosphere stripped away by the star’s heat and radiation. In the case of the recently discovered exoplanet LHS 475 b ...

The search for biosignatures on exoplanets got a boost of energy when the James Webb Space Telescope began observations. One ...