Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like ...

In a groundbreaking revelation, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has uncovered strong evidence suggesting the presence of a potential new exoplanet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, the closest sun-like ...

It would also set the stage for future research to look at exoplanets orbiting around ... an atmosphere around a potentially habitable rocky exoplanet." The planets in TRAPPIST-1 have a range of ...

"TRAPPIST-1e has long been considered one of the best habitable zone planets to search for an atmosphere." Astronomers have investigated the atmosphere and potential habitability of a famous ...

TRAPPIST-1e, a rocky exoplanet orbiting an ultracool dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth, has emerged as one of the most compelling candidates for hosting extraterrestrial life. Its size and density ...

Starshade-based methods, both for in-space observatories like the Habitable Worlds Observer or ground-based observatories, have the potential to increase our observational capability without launching ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope are unraveling the mysteries of TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized exoplanet 40 ...

A new study suggests a habitable past and signs of ancient microbial processes on Mars. Led by NASA and featuring key analysis from Imperial College London, the work has uncovered a range of minerals ...

From lava worlds to gas giants, NASA says the variety of these worlds is staggering—and that signs of a further 8,000 distant ...