The search for life on other worlds needs a way to sift through the chemistry of their atmospheres. If another species ...

As NASA rolls out more powerful telescopes in the future, scientists will need a way to determine where to point them. A new ...

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NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been used to discover Earth-size planet TOI 700 e. It is "orbiting ...

NASA has just announced a groundbreaking discovery: 10 new Earth-like planets beyond our solar system that could potentially ...

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

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

"It's essential that the next leader of NASA is in complete alignment with President Trump’s America First agenda, and a ...

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

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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 ...