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On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...
Some exoplanets in their stars' habitable zones may be distinctly uninhabitable due to solar flaring. Red dwarfs are known for powerful flaring, and since they're dim and their habitable zones are ...
Proxima Centauri b is the closest known exoplanet to our solar system that is thought to be within the habitable zone of its star.
Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme. At least, that's what astronomers found when ...
A close-in exoplanet is triggering stellar flares and self-destructing. This is the first direct evidence of planet-star ...
Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...
TOI-6894 b, the largest exoplanet relative to its host star yet seen, doesn’t fit the most widely accepted formation model ...
Last week the James Webb Space Telescope captured a direct image of what they believe to be a previously unknown exoplanet ...
Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...
The star HIP 67522 with a flare erupting toward an orbiting planet, HIP 67522 b, is depicted in this illustration released by ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered an exoplanet using the direct-imaging technique. The host star's light was ...
Astronomers using the European Space Agency's Cheops mission have caught an exoplanet that seems to be triggering flares of ...