Called Kepler-725c, the faraway world has 10 times the mass of Earth, according to experts at the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope recently announced the discovery of gases on a faraway planet that may be the ...

When searching for life in the Universe (aka. astrobiology), scientists use strategies that go by various names. For example, ...

Astronomers confirm the existence of small, hot and likely rocky planets by observing the subtle gravitational wobbles of the star they orbit Researchers supported by the U.S. National Science ...

Astronomers find evidence of a possible ninth planet beyond Neptune, reigniting the debate about the formation of the Solar ...