The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.

NASA may have just found our second Earth - a planet so similar, it could be habitable for humans. But this is just the ...

How many Earth-like exoplanets orbit M dwarf stars (Red dwarf stars), which are smaller and cooler than our Sun? This is what ...

NASA's Perseverance rover is digging deeper into Mars' geologic past as it begins grinding into rock surfaces to expose ...

A new gas giant world discovered by citizen scientists using data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS is cool, ...

What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a study recently posted to the arXiv preprint server hopes to ...

In a stellar nursery 460 light-years away, astronomers sharpened old ALMA data and spotted crisp rings and spirals swirling ...

New research says that the search for extraterrestrial life may be too narrow, as life could thrive in conditions far different from Earth's.

Recent studies reveal that low-mass stars frequently host Earth-like planets, with four new exoplanets recently identified by Heidelberg University astronomers.

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...

In a significant advance for space exploration, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has directly detected a new exoplanet; TWA ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...