Since then, over 6,000 confirmed exoplanets —or planets orbiting other stars—have been found, leading astronomers to conclude ...

The habitable zone is just the start. Scientists now focus on exoplanet atmospheres to find signs of life beyond Earth. Discover how carbon cycling, greenhouse gases, and NASA's upcoming Habitable ...

A first ever detection of a coronal mass ejection from a small red dwarf could have big consequences for life on any nearby ...

NASA has decided to launch a telescope in space to look for life on 20 distant planets.According to Time Magazine, NASA next year will launch a far smaller than usual telescope, weighing just 716 ...

"The James Webb Space Telescope has captured helium escape from this planet for the first time, and it is the most confident ...

For decades, the search for alien life has revolved around a narrow ring around stars where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface. That “habitable zone” remains important, but astronomers are ...

As Santa sits at the North Pole anticipating the discovery of life on some far-flung planet he might be somewhat nervously scanning the latest scientific literature to see which exoplanets are hot top ...

A planet's habitability is determined by a confluence of many factors. So far, our explorations of potentially habitable ...

Modifications to Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station have already begun. SpaceX just took a big ...

An Abu Dhabi scientist was part of a team of researchers who mapped temperatures on a planet 400 million light years away - ...

Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, with the help of the world’s most powerful telescope, ventures through the Milky Way and into the universe beyond, on the hunt for alien worlds.