"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 ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected clouds made of silicates, similar to sand here on Earth, as well as water, ...

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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 ...

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

Astronomers have detected silicon monoxide gas in the atmosphere of a planet 850 lightyears from Earth, the first time the ...

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

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

Scientists eye LHS 1140 b as a top candidate for habitability, with signs of a warm ocean and a possible atmosphere just 41 ...