The AstroAI initiative, launched in 2023, uses AI to search for life on exoplanets, such as the exoplanet WASP-39 b imagined in this illustration. IMAGE NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) Could ...

A new study has identified an exoplanet that is just 3 million years old — around 1,500 times younger than Earth — alongside ...

The daisy world model describes a hypothetical planet that self-regulates, maintaining a delicate balance involving its ...

Southwest Research Institute, supported by NASA’s Habitable Worlds program, is repurposing corrosion modeling software to ...

Astronomers heading the search for extraterrestrial intelligence predict their quest might first spark an encounter with ...

the study was an attempt to prove that their method for determining such works and that the planned LIFE (Large Interferometer for Exoplanets) space mission can succeed. The findings of this study ...

Searching for liquid water on exoplanets is the key to finding life among the stars, and now, scientists have proposed a new strategy that might improve the chances of finding it. In the new study ...

These exoplanets (planets orbiting a star other ... For a planet to be warm is considered by scientists as essential in the hunt for life because only planets that are in this zone could ...

And while the new data suggests an ocean of water might sit below the exoplanet's atmosphere, it is still possible that the ocean may be too hot either to be liquid or for life to survive.

And the newfound bounty of exoplanets has sparked hopes among astronomers and their followers worldwide of finding signs of life on other worlds. Although exoplanet science is on firm ground now ...

For instance, three of the smallest rocky exoplanets yet detected—each no larger than Mars—closely orbit the red dwarf star KOI-961 and are far too hot to host life. Calculations based on ...

Earth is teeming with life, including humans intelligent enough ... what scientists have been doing for decades: searching for exoplanets, worlds orbiting faraway stars. They’ve had tremendous ...