How will NASA's upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) mission differentiate Earth-sized exoplanets from other ...

An exoplanet has been discovered orbiting Barnard's star by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Barnard ...

A new study rules out the existence of global oceans of water on Neptune-like planets such as K2-18b, finding their water ...

The striking thing about this is that repeating the procedure on the star turned up no evidence of carbon-based chemicals, ...

NASA is inviting the public to take part in 36 “citizen science” projects that let volunteers contribute to real scientific ...

In May 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were testing how radio waves bounced off balloon satellites developed by Bell ...

This artist's concept depicts the protoplanet WISPIT 2b accreting matter as it orbits around its star, WISPIT 2.NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) The ...

Interstellar comet 3I/Atlas is the hottest topic among astronomers right now. Its speed, light, trajectory, tail, everything is strange. This visitor from outside the solar system is not behaving like ...

Now, thanks to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have made the first direct measurements of one such disk around ...

Hundreds of scientists and engineers, NASA leaders, lobbyists, congressional staffers and Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona are also discussing the search for ET. Surveilling alien worlds for signs of ...

With the discovery of ever more exoplanets—over 6,000 now—scientists, of course, want to know if they are habitable for life.

"Understanding these weather processes will be crucial as we continue to discover and characterize exoworlds in the future." ...