The James Webb Telescope is reshaping our understanding of distant worlds, revealing exoplanet atmospheres, potential ...

Searching for life on other planets requires more than just measuring their distances from their stars. A future NASA ...

Where will we first find life beyond Earth? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to ...

The powerful coronal mass ejection would have likely destroyed the atmospheres of any potentially habitable planets nearby ...

Scientists have detected the first direct evidence of a coronal mass ejection from a star beyond our Sun, specifically the M dwarf StKM1-1262. This ma ...

A faint radio whisper that came from the Earth's magnetosphere for a certain number of hours every dusk till dawn suddenly ...

In a groundbreaking revelation, recent astronomical observations have identified potential Dyson spheres, massive structures ...

Nearby M dwarf unleashes first confirmed stellar blast strong enough to strip atmospheres from planets, challenging hopes for ...

An exoplanet completely or densely covered by clouds could aid astronomers in their search for signs of life beyond Earth. Cloudy skies may spoil a picnic or block a view of the stars through a ...

This artist’s concept shows the volatile red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 and its four most closely orbiting planets, all of which ...