A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the solar system—but it’s still no place like home ...

F or the first time, astronomers have successfully detected an astrosphere surrounding a sunlike star.This discovery, announced at the 25 Years of Science with Chandra symposium on December 3 ...

That world was detected around the sunlike star 51 Pegasi, a mere 50 light-years from Earth. The rate of exoplanet discovery has since climbed rapidly thanks to the development of three main ...