Most exoplanets have been discovered by watching them transit (cross in front of) their stars. So although we can’t see the ...

"Are we alone?" This ancient question has occupied humanity's mind for a long time. In 1995, the discovery of the first ...

The challenge in the search for habitable worlds is clear. We need to be able to identify habitable worlds and distinguish ...

Researchers were surprised to find giant gas planets orbiting quite near to their stars. Yet novelists had already imagined ...

A new device uses quantum optics to filter out starlight in real time — bringing scientists closer to directly observing ...

A team of astronomers led by a British student found traces of the first-ever-discovered planet moving in a polar orbit ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal the surprising origin of the ultra-hot exoplanet WASP-121b ...

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A series of studies have cast doubt on the sensational claim that "the strongest evidence yet" was found that life exists ...

Quantum coronagraph filters stellar light using spatial photon sorting New tech may image Earth-like exoplanets near ...

Excitement around the potential discovery of alien life on exoplanet K2-18b is fading as new analyses cast doubt on initial ...

How do ultra-hot Jupiters form and evolve? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated | Space ...