The world’s first private space telescope is set to revolutionize the search for stars with habitable exoplanets, marking a ...

How can timing influence planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

It would also set the stage for future research to look at exoplanets ... habitable rocky exoplanet." The planets in TRAPPIST-1 have a range of conditions similar to the terrestrial planets in our ...

Astronomers have since found more than 6,000 exoplanets, plus hints of thousands more ... “Each is a whole brand-new world, brimming with possibility and potential, usually unlike anything we’ve seen ...

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

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 ...