Exoplanet habitability depends on a whole host of factors, with liquid water at the top of the list. It also requires a stable atmosphere, the right chemistry, and possibly even things like plate ...

For direct detection, an observatory would need to capture photons that travel through the planet's atmosphere as it is making a transit. Given that transits are one of the primary ways exoplanets ...

A recent discovery has sent ripples through the scientific community, with astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope to detect water vapor in the atmosphere of an exoplanet. This finding, centered ...

Researchers have developed a new coronagraph that could make it possible to see distant exoplanets obscured by light from their parent stars. Researchers have developed a new coronagraph -- an optical ...

On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When scientists find exoplanets around distant stars, a primary consideration is ...

Carole Haswell receives funding from STFC. We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of these is whether Earth is the ...