The curious minds at What If explore what would happen if we made these exoplanets habitable.

A new study analyzed how NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory might be able to confidently spot biosignatures in the ...

How can volcanic gases help shield exoplanets from atmospheric erosion? This is what a recent study published in The ...

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to flesh out our understanding of the exoplanet population. The second was to ...

Could white dwarf stars host habitable exoplanets that might support life as we know it? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as an international team of ...

Currently, the closest exoplanet to Earth is Proxima Centauri b, which orbits the star Proxima Centauri, located 4 ...

When astronomers discovered the first planet outside our solar system, it was orbiting a pulsar, one of the most extreme, radiation-blasted environments imaginable. Not exactly the kind of place you'd ...

Seidel and her team didn’t actually set out to measure magnetic fields but winds, the wind speeds on 7 exoplanets orbiting ...

When we think of exoplanets that may be able to support life, we home in on the habitable zone. A habitable zone is a region around a star where planets receive enough stellar energy to have liquid ...

Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets now in astronomers’ catalogs, the most intriguing yet might be one confirmed last week, a potentially habitable world of fire and ice twirling around a nearby sunlike ...