For years, astronomers have searched the cosmos for planets capable of supporting life. Most efforts focus on the "habitable zone," the region around a star where a planet could have liquid water. But ...

Florida Tech's Caldon Whyte is two years into a lengthy universe exploration to earn his Ph.D. in space sciences. After ...

For years, astronomers have sought a way to directly observe the atmospheres of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars.