U.S. team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet's atmosphere long considered to be "biosignatures" ...

The Webb telescope has spotted exoplanets circling white dwarf stars, proving that planets can survive their star’s violent ...

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life. A Cambridge ...

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have discovered a truly bizarre planet — one that orbits two stars at a perfect 90-degree angle. This “polar planet” circles a rare eclipsing pair of brown ...

During the Age of Exploration, explorers relied on compasses to navigate the oceans and conquer the wilds, but they were never used in space.

Most space games allow players to explore alien planets, and the more ambitious titles even let you traverse through a galaxy's worth of procedurally generated star ... and outer space is ...

open image in gallery NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has ... started to sort of smear around the star.” The planet would have blasted gas away from the outer layers of the star.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope ... When the planet finally fell in toward the star, it splashed away layers of gas from the star’s outer atmosphere, and this gas gradually cooled into ...

Near a planet far, far away astronomers have found traces of chemicals that on Earth are only produced by living beings.