Extrasolar Planets

Chinese scientists reveal how deep mantle water made Earth habitable CGTN11:28
Scientists have been studying the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e. Could it harbor alien life? NPR08:03
Webb’s first look at TRAPPIST-1e hints at a titan-like atmosphere Sky & Telescope20:37
There might be an ocean on exoplanet TOI-270 d EarthSky11:44
Aliens are talking to each other—and we could eavesdrop on them, scientists say Popular Mechanics19:04
What would happen to your body on each planet in the Solar System BGR19:14

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Detectability of Atmospheric Biosignatures in Earth Analogs with Varying Surface Boundary Conditions: Prospects for… Astrobiology Web16:17 13-Dec-25
Validation Of A Third Earth-sized Planet In The TOI-2267 Binary System Astrobiology Web16:17 13-Dec-25
In the last 7 days
James Webb telescope uncovers a new mystery: A broiling 'hell planet' with an atmosphere that shouldn't exist Live Science20:34 12-Dec-25
"Wet lava ball" exoplanet may have an atmosphere, evidence shows CBS News19:45 12-Dec-25
Chinese scientists reveal how deep mantle water made Earth habitable CGTN11:28 12-Dec-25
Scientists have been studying the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e. Could it harbor alien life? NPR08:03 12-Dec-25
Chinese scientists discover how Earth's deep mantle water made planet habitable Xinhua Agency07:24 12-Dec-25
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope emission measurements reveal cooler-than-expected dayside on TOI-561 b Primetimer04:41 12-Dec-25
An exoplanet, how ant colonies deal with disease and a volcanoes-Black Death link NPR22:54 11-Dec-25
A Tatooine-Like Planet Is Revealing How Worlds Form Around Two Suns Discover Magazine22:37 11-Dec-25
NASA Finds Evidence Of Atmosphere On Alien World 280 Light-Years Away Forbes20:57 11-Dec-25
Webb’s First Look at TRAPPIST-1e Hints at a Titan-like Atmosphere Sky & Telescope20:37 11-Dec-25
A ‘Tatooine’ Planet Directly Imaged Centauri Dreams19:41 11-Dec-25
Scientists identify distant planet six times bigger than Jupiter University of Exeter19:04 11-Dec-25
Rare image of Tatooine-like planet is closest to its twin stars yet Northwestern Now18:56 11-Dec-25
Astronomers discover images of rare Tatooine-like exoplanet with a strange 300-year orbit:… Space.com17:24 11-Dec-25
Astronomers offer glimpse of real-life Tatooine Courthouse News17:03 11-Dec-25
Impossible Planet Is A Wet Lava Ball Under Blazing Old Star Science Blog16:19 11-Dec-25
James Webb Space Telescope spots mysterious twin helium tails streaming from a distant hot Jupiter Primetimer15:48 11-Dec-25
James Webb Space Telescope finds strongest evidence yet for atmosphere around rocky exoplanet:… Space.com15:42 11-Dec-25
NASA’s Webb Detects Thick Atmosphere Around Broiling Lava World Newswise (Press Release)15:17 11-Dec-25
First Astrometric Limits On Binary Planets And Exomoons Orbiting β Pictoris b Astrobiology Web14:26 11-Dec-25
Nsta Brings Science to Life This Holiday Season With Four Inspiring New Children’s Trade Books Business Wire (Press Release)14:05 11-Dec-25
There might be an ocean on exoplanet TOI-270 d EarthSky11:44 11-Dec-25
James Webb Space Telescope discovers a hot Jupiter exoplanet leaking twin gas tails that defy… Space.com11:09 11-Dec-25
SPHERE’s Debris Disk Gallery: Tell-tale Signs Of Dust And Small Bodies In Distant Solar Systems Astrobiology Web19:28 10-Dec-25
Multi-bandpass Photometry for Exoplanet Atmosphere Reconnaissance (MPEAR) with the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) — … Astrobiology Web19:18 10-Dec-25
Conclusive Tests For The RISTRETTO Proxima b Exoplanet Explorer Astrobiology Web18:57 10-Dec-25
A New Study Reveals How Oxygen First Reached Earth’s Oceans Astrobiology Web18:47 10-Dec-25
Venus As An Exoplanet Analog: Extended UV Transit Signatures And Coronal Occultations Astrobiology Web18:47 10-Dec-25
Planet-Eating Stars Are Giving Us a Glimpse of Earth’s Ultimate Fate ZME Science15:02 10-Dec-25
'Super-Jupiter' Exoplanets May Look Like Nothing We've Ever Seen ScienceAlert12:06 10-Dec-25
Jwst tracks helium escape from the atmosphere of the exoplanet Wasp-107 b Nature.com10:28 10-Dec-25
Aliens Are Talking to Each Other—And We Could Eavesdrop on Them, Scientists Say Popular Mechanics19:04 9-Dec-25
TOI-7166 b: A Habitable Zone Mini-Neptune Planet Around A Nearby Low-mass Star Astrobiology Web18:21 9-Dec-25
JWST TRAPPIST-1 e/b Program: Motivation and First Observations Astrobiology Web18:10 9-Dec-25
Determining the Detectability of H2O With Photometric Observations Using Bayesian Analysis For Remote Biosignature… Astrobiology Web18:10 9-Dec-25
Michelangelo in Space: A Planet Carving the Fomalhaut Debris Disk? AAS Nova17:07 9-Dec-25
Astronomers spot a brown dwarf and huge exoplanet in Subaru telescope’s first discoveries Primetimer06:08 9-Dec-25
The Subaru Telescope just made its 1st discoveries: a 'failed star' and an exoplanet Space.com23:03 8-Dec-25
TRAPPIST-1e Likely Doesn’t Have What It Takes To Be a Habitable Planet — Here’s Why Discover Magazine22:40 8-Dec-25
One of the most promising Earth-like worlds may not have an atmosphere after all Space.com22:02 8-Dec-25
What Would Happen To Your Body On Each Planet In The Solar System BGR19:14 8-Dec-25
Which exoplanet in the Trappist-1 system could be habitable? Scientists are modeling the star… Space.com19:07 8-Dec-25
Chasing its tail in the cosmos University of Waterloo (Press Release)18:51 8-Dec-25
Young M Dwarfs Flare Activity Model: Towards Better Exoplanetary Atmospheric Characterisation Astrobiology Web15:44 8-Dec-25
A new look at TRAPPIST-1e raises big questions about habitability Tech Explorist11:23 8-Dec-25
In the last month
NASA's next-gen Roman Space Telescope is fully built. Could it launch earlier than expected? Space.com22:08 5-Dec-25
Scientists capture 51 images showing exoplanets coming together around other stars: 'This data… Space.com19:06 5-Dec-25
Machine Learning For Exoplanet Discovery: Validating TESS Candidates and Identifying Planets in the Habitable Zone Astrobiology Web17:59 5-Dec-25
A New Look At TRAPPIST-1e, An Earth-sized, Habitable-zone Exoplanet Astrobiology Web16:58 5-Dec-25
Quantification Of Abundance Uncertainties In Chemical Models Of Exoplanet Atmospheres Astrobiology Web18:34 4-Dec-25
Can We Image Alien Earths? This Newfound Object Could Show the Way Scientific American14:48 4-Dec-25
A First Order Filter For The Detection of Potentially Habitable Exoplanets Astrobiology Web20:31 3-Dec-25
A Window For Water-hydrogen Demixing On Warm Metal-rich Sub-Neptunes Astrobiology Web20:11 3-Dec-25
Current Opinions And Trends In The Search For Extrasolar Photosynthesis Astrobiology Web15:06 3-Dec-25
A 'super-puff' exoplanet is losing its atmosphere, and the James Webb Space Telescope had a look Space.com13:10 3-Dec-25
Jwst spots a planet chasing its own atmosphere through space Live Science10:04 3-Dec-25
Planet-Eating Stars Hint at Earth’s Ultimate Fate Eos.org14:36 2-Dec-25
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Hears the Crack of Martian Lightning, Providing the First Glimpse into the Red Planet’s… The Debrief14:03 2-Dec-25
Ancient Earth’s Sky May Have Rained Life’s Building Blocks Science Blog22:14 1-Dec-25
The Rest is Silence: Empirically Equivalent Hypotheses about the Universe Centauri Dreams20:00 1-Dec-25
Book Review: Space Hazards: Asteroids, Solar Flares and Cosmic Threats astrobites (Weblog)19:37 1-Dec-25
Webb Telescope captures exoplanet dramatically shedding its atmosphere in real time University of Chicago News18:51 1-Dec-25
NASA exoplanet-hunting spacecraft hears a red giant star 'singing' to its partner black hole Space.com18:15 1-Dec-25
Maynooth University joins international satellite mission to study the hidden lives of stars TechCentral.ie16:59 1-Dec-25
Evidence Of 1:1 Slope Between Rocky Super-Earths And Their Host Stars Astrobiology Web16:25 1-Dec-25
Maynooth scientists join UK space-tech to study planetary formation Silicon Republic13:51 1-Dec-25
This Space Telescope Will Search For Life On Distant Planets TIME12:00 1-Dec-25
Heat seeker: Abu Dhabi researcher discovers distant planet is scorching 3,500°C The National02:04 1-Dec-25
Resolving The Flat-spectrum Conundrum: Clumpy Aerosol Distributions In Sub-Neptune Atmospheres Astrobiology Web17:32 30-Nov-25
Projections of Earth’s Technosphere: Strategies For Observing Technosignatures On Terrestrial Exoplanets Astrobiology Web18:47 29-Nov-25
Measuring the magnetic fields in the chromospheres of low-mass stars Nature.com07:22 29-Nov-25
An astronomical detective story Varsity21:37 28-Nov-25
A Homogeneous TTV Investigation Of All TESS Systems With A Confirmed Single Transiting Planet Astrobiology Web19:13 28-Nov-25
Helium Depletion in Escaping Atmospheres of Sub-Neptunes: A Signature of Primary-to-Secondary Transition Astrobiology Web19:03 28-Nov-25
Methane On The Temperate Exo-Saturn TOI-199b Astrobiology Web19:03 28-Nov-25
Planetary Habitability Under The Light Of A Rapidly Changing Star Astrobiology Web17:33 27-Nov-25
The Surface and Interior Conditions of Temperate Sub-Neptune TOI-270 d Astrobiology Web17:23 27-Nov-25
Resonant Structures In Exozodiacal Clouds Created By Exo-Earths In The Habitable Zone Of Late-type Stars Astrobiology Web20:20 26-Nov-25
Mars Has Lightning, Scientists Prove Scientific American17:39 26-Nov-25
The Seven Sisters Get 3,000 New Siblings Nautilus17:13 26-Nov-25
Why is this star so weird? Maybe because it ate one of its own planets Space.com11:03 26-Nov-25
A Solar Gravity Lens Telescope Would Revolutionize Astronomy Forbes10:25 25-Nov-25
Dr. Ellie Hadzhijska Schmelzer: From Childhood Curiosity About the Stars to Leadership Role at NASA mission Bulgarian News Agency06:11 25-Nov-25
Two Warm Earth-sized Exoplanets And An Earth-sized Candidate In The M5V-M6V Binary System TOI-2267 Astrobiology Web02:37 25-Nov-25
NASA's next-gen Roman Space Telescope is surprising scientists with its capabilities. It hasn't … Space.com23:07 24-Nov-25
NASA Exoplanets System Science Extraterrestrial Photosynthesis Workshop Astrobiology Web15:46 24-Nov-25
Second exoplanet discovered in the TOI-1422 system Phys.org14:20 24-Nov-25
Nearby Planet Could Harbor Life Tasnim News Agency13:05 24-Nov-25
Scientists want to search for life in this double star system devoid of giant exoplanets.… Space.com11:06 24-Nov-25
Astronomers discover super-earth in habitable zone just 18 light-years away Anadolu Agency10:04 24-Nov-25
Dry Planets Can Brew Their Own Oceans After All Science Blog21:45 23-Nov-25
Secret behind life on Earth may be hiding right below us: Scientists reveal surprising clues from 1,800 miles beneath… The Economic Times12:43 23-Nov-25
A JWST Transit Of A Jupiter Analog: II. A Search For Exomoons Astrobiology Web18:40 22-Nov-25
Refractive Indices Of Photochemical Haze Analogs For Solar System And Exoplanet Applications: A Cross-laboratory… Astrobiology Web18:30 22-Nov-25
The Atmospheric Composition Of TOI-270 d Astrobiology Web18:30 22-Nov-25
Scientists say finding extraterrestrial life and curing all genetic diseases could both happen in the next decade BetaNews09:34 22-Nov-25
SETI Institute Invites Applications for the 2026 Mino Postdoctoral Fellowship Astrobiology Web18:17 21-Nov-25
Colorful life on exoplanets might be lurking in clouds EarthSky11:17 21-Nov-25
Stellar Flares In The TESS Light Curves Of Planet-hosting M dwarfs Astrobiology Web16:30 20-Nov-25
Efficient Exoplanet Imaging Simulations of the Habitable Worlds Observatory Astrobiology Web16:30 20-Nov-25
Hidden Deep Earth Blobs May Explain Why Our Planet Came Alive Science Blog15:18 20-Nov-25
New Images of Comet 3I/ATLAS Reveal "How Magical the Universe Could Be" Discover Magazine14:50 20-Nov-25
ROSES-25 Amendment 20: Exoplanets Research Program Step-1 Due Date Deferred to December 3, 2025 Astrobiology Web13:27 20-Nov-25
Terraforming in the Data Center The Fast Mode13:23 20-Nov-25
“All Genetic Diseases Could be Cured within a Decade”, Hears Dubai Future Forum Business Wire (Press Release)13:18 20-Nov-25
Exoplanet atmospheres are a key to habitability EarthSky11:05 20-Nov-25
ExoClock Project IV: A Homogeneous Catalogue Of 620 Updated Exoplanet Ephemerides Astrobiology Web18:49 19-Nov-25
Experiments Show How Water Could Form on Exoplanets, Disrupting Current Theories Newswise (Press Release)18:05 19-Nov-25
Beyond the habitable zone: Exoplanet atmospheres are next clue to finding life on planets… Phys.org17:08 19-Nov-25
Radio burst from a stellar coronal mass ejection Nature.com16:02 19-Nov-25
Beyond the habitable zone: Exoplanet atmospheres are the next clue to finding life on planets orbiting distant stars The Conversation (US)13:39 19-Nov-25
Searching for exoplanets in the remnants of a dwarf galaxy Phys.org18:13 18-Nov-25

      
            
      
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