The Chandra X-ray telescope and other observatories are being used to study stars that could potentially harbor habitable planets. Future observatories will use the data to narrow down the list for ...

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

The UK Space Agency aims to contribute to NASA's space telescope searching for 'alien life beyond our Solar System' ...

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

On May 12, weather-station equipment on NASA's Curiosity rover (pictured 2021) recorded a high temperature of 11 degrees ...

Exoplanets—planets that orbit stars beyond our solar system—have transformed our understanding of the universe. Since the ...

Flower Mound, Texas, was named one of the best places to live in the U.S. The James Webb Space Telescope has peered into the ...

NASA’s astrobiology ambitions are at risk of collapsing under the White House’s proposed budget. But your voice can make a ...

Mountains rise, volcanoes spew, and Earth itself quakes as the crust constantly remakes itself in the ceaseless cycle of ...

A reappraisal of decades-old data suggests that strange circular formations on Venus could be volcanic “rings of fire” ...

While researchers are still debating the exact timeline, one thing is becoming clear. Life didn’t take long to get started.

Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets that have been confirmed so far and many more thousands of candidates, most orbit stars the ...