Scientists in the US have come up with a new method to search for oceans on “exoplanets” — planets outside our Solar System. The method, which involves studying how colours shift with an exoplanet’s ...

Even before its launch in 2021, researchers have discovered a new way to use NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to look for signs of oxygen on distant exoplanets, according to a new study. The ...

Astronomers have used a brand new technique to get a direct look at a nearby exoplanet. The advancement could help us find brand new exoplanets in the future and learn much more about the ones we’ve ...

Exoplanets, by definition, exist outside our solar system, orbiting other stars. That means they’re pretty far away. Telescopes, even top-notch ones like Hubble, can’t image anything as small as a ...

Scientists have discovered more than 4,000 alien planets since spotting the first ones orbiting a star beyond our sun back in 1992. Here's a brief rundown of the main techniques they use to find these ...

Andrew Norton receives funding from STFC. He is affiliated with the Royal Astronomical Society and the Open University. Astronomers didn’t know, 20 years ago, whether planets existed around any stars ...

A generation ago, the idea of a planet orbiting a distant star was still in the realm of science fiction. But since the discovery of the first exoplanet in 1988, we've found hundreds of them, with the ...