K2-18b is a little over 120 light-years from Earth — on a galactic scale, this world is practically in our backyard.

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...

Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life.A Cambridge ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led study modeled the chemistry of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet between Earth and Neptune in size, ...

A bold geochemical model reveals that TOI‑270 d, a sub‑Neptune 73 light‑years away, is likely a giant rocky world cloaked in ...

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...