The old adage that it's easier to prove a negative could play a crucial role in characterizing nearby exoplanets that could harbor life. The idea is that looking for earth-like planets is tough enough ...

Imaging and characterizing Earth-like planets, or exo-Earths, is a key scientific objective of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), as identified by the NASA 2020 Astrophysics Decadal Survey. Earth ...

An artist's impression of the Earth 2.0/ET observatory searching for exo-Earths. Credit: CAS HELSINKI — China plans to launch an exoplanet observatory in 2028 with the aim of making a breakthrough ...

(Nanowerk News) Astronomers have made the rare and tantalising discovery of an Earth-like exoplanet 40 light-years away that may be just a little warmer than our own world. The potentially-habitable ...

(CNN) – Astronomers have discovered a rare family of six planets about 100 light years from Earth. The exo-planets are larger than the Earth but smaller than Neptune. The planets are in a ...

Physicists at The University of Texas at Arlington have published a study of F-type star systems, in which they explored systems where the planets spend at least part of their orbits in the stellar ...