The Chandra X-ray telescope and other observatories are being used to study stars that could potentially harbor habitable ...

The hunt for habitable worlds has become a hot topic in astronomy. For decades, the search has been focused on planets in the ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope recently announced the discovery of gases on a faraway planet that may be the same as those produced by ocean plankton on Earth. But a North Carolina ...

People always want to know what will happen to Earth when the sun eventually swells up as a red giant. For one thing, the ...

Of the roughly 6,000 exoplanets we’ve discovered, a significant number are in the apparent habitable zones of their stars.

THERE are planets beyond our own that could be hiding untouched paradises.  Exoplanet LHS 1140 b is just one of them – and ...

Claims for the detection of life on other planets go back decades. Here's why you should still be skeptical despite recent ...

Recent observations by JWST of TRAPPIST-1 c ruled out a thick carbon dioxide atmosphere, indicating that the planet is not as ...

The new observations were carried out using JWST’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), which captured signals in the mid-infrared ...

Nasa Scientist Discovers Earth-sized ‘Habitable Zone’ World Just 100 Light-years Away The company's payload aboard the ISS features three distinct camera views: a wide-angle lens for Earth's horizon, ...

Exoplanets—planets that orbit stars beyond our solar system—have transformed our understanding of the universe. Since the first confirmed discovery in the 1990s, more than 5,000 have been identified, ...

An astonishing new claim that we have finally discovered “alien life” has left the space world reeling. The world of ...