Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the "habitable zone," where a planet ...

Published in the peer-reviewed The Astrophysical Journal, the research focuses on tidally locked planets, worlds that always ...

The James Webb telescope's search for habitable exoplanets is getting a big boost from its new star-watching companion, ...

We recently discussed the different types of worlds that the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is expected to find that ...

By tracking active stars, NASA's Pandora will join the search for water and other key signs in exoplanet atmospheres.

The Living Worlds Working Group proposes a revolutionary approach to finding life on distant planets. The paper, part of the ...

If this hasn’t sent you into a bit of an existential spiral, they assure that it’s unlikely that we are the only ones out ...

Data from the Kepler project has confirmed a new world that fulfills the telescope's goal of locating Earth-sized planets ...

Mars, long admired for its rusty hue and alien deserts, may play a far greater role in shaping life on Earth than once ...

That would make it thousands of times more massive than any moon orbiting a solar system plane  — so massive it could make ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...