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

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

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

For now, complex life flourishes on our planet thanks to its supply of oxygen. But Earth's atmosphere wasn't always like it ...

The study suggests Tylos formed in a cold, distant region rich in ice and rocky material before migrating closer to its star, where intense heat vaporized the rocks into silicon monoxide, a planet ...

Last month, astronomers claimed to have found the strongest evidence ever of alien life on a distant exoplanet named K2-18 b.

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

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

Astronomers are developing plans and technology for increasingly powerful space telescopes. For instance, NASA is working on its proposed Habitable Worlds Observatory, which would take ultrasharp ...

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

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 ...