New telescopic technologies are offering insights into whether exoplanets host life, focusing on atmospheric gas analysis.

Discovered by volunteer scientists, this alien planet is out of synch with its siblings ...

NASA has taken a bold step in the search for alien life beyond Earth. The space agency announced the selection of seven ...

Scientists have identified an unexpected way to study the hidden space weather of distant stars by observing strange, ...

NASA’s Pandora mission will study exoplanet atmospheres by separating star light from planet signals, helping scientists learn which distant worlds may have air, water, and signs of life ...

Worlds upon worlds await us in the cosmos and we’re finding more all the time. Before 1992, we weren’t even completely certain planets existed outside of our solar system. Now, astronomers are finding ...

Explore how astronomers aim to identify signs of alien life by analysing the atmospheres of distant exoplanets through ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp.

Exoplanet TOI-561 b is the closest of four worlds orbiting a 10-billion-year-old G-type star roughly 280 light-years from Earth. - NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf Crawford illustration NASA’s James Webb Space ...

It’s a sweltering Tuesday in Washington, D.C., the kind of day that stretches the definition of Earth as a “habitable” planet. But on an eighth-floor terrace near the U.S. Capitol building, dozens of ...

Pandora, a compact 325-kilogram spacecraft, boasts a novel 45-centimetre all-aluminium telescope developed with Lawrence ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has found the strongest evidence yet that a small, rocky planet outside our solar system has air, even though it orbits precariously close to its star. The exoplanet, ...