Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know ...

Astronomers have identified an extreme exoplanet, LTT 9779 b, that is reshaping our understanding of planetary atmospheres.

Scientists are rethinking how to detect alien life by focusing on planets vastly different from Earth. Instead of searching ...

A groundbreaking collaboration between, Arizona State University, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is unlocking the ...

Scientists have identified a promising new way to detect life on faraway planets, hinging on worlds that look nothing like ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory released this update on researchers' use of high performance computing resources to ...

The dividing line between gas giant planets and failed stars is blurry at best. The isolated planetary-mass object SIMP ...

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the largest, most powerful and most complex telescope ever launched into space. Three years into ...

Scientists discovered that methyl halides, a gas produced by microbes, could be a biosignature for life on distant planets.

For the first time, scientists have discovered an exoplanet that defies the usual pace of time. WASP-121b, located 900 light-years away, has a year t ...